Month: September 2022

SECOND MILESTONE. “In late 2002 the ATHENA project announced that they had created the world's first "cold" antihydrogen.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

REALITY. We are "both spectators and actors." (From Being to Becoming (1979) by Nobel Laureate, Ilya Prigogine). https://lnkd.in/dDHtwje View in LinkedIn

Nummulites fossil shells of the marine protozoan Nummulites common in Eocene to Miocene marine rocks, here embedded in Girona marly limestone. View in LinkedIn

THIRD MILESTONE. “In November 2010, the ALPHA collaboration announced that they had so trapped 38 antihydrogen atoms for about a sixth of a second. This was the first time that neutral antimatter had been trapped. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

FOURTH MILESTONE. “On 26 April 2011, ALPHA announced that they had trapped 309 antihydrogen atoms, some for as long as 1,000 seconds (about 17 minutes). This was longer than neutral antimatter had ever been trapped before.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

LIMITING GATE NEARLY RESOLVED. “The biggest limiting factor in the large-scale production of antimatter is the availability of antiprotons. Recent data released by CERN states that, when fully operational, their facilities are capable of producing ten million antiprotons per minute.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

OUR VERY BEST HOPE. “Assuming a 100% conversion of antiprotons to antihydrogen, it would take 100 billion years to produce 1 gram or 1 mole of antihydrogen (approximately 6.02×10(23) atoms of anti-hydrogen). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

STORING ANTIMATTER. “Antimatter cannot be stored in a container made of ordinary matter because antimatter reacts with any matter it touches, annihilating itself and an equal amount of the container. Antimatter in the form of charged particles can be contained by a combination of electric and magnetic fields, in a device called a Penning trap.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

PENNING TRAP. “This device cannot, however, contain antimatter that consists of uncharged particles, for which atomic traps are used. In particular, such a trap may use the dipole moment (electric or magnetic) of the trapped particles.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

PHYSICAL SUBJECTIVITY. “Penrose and Hameroff assert that brain computations, including quantum computations, involving hydrophobic areas of microtubules whose electron clouds go into orchestrated superpositions and reductions that lead to proto-conscious elements, or “bings” that become orchestrated into conscious experiences.” https://lnkd.in/dGnJg8JZ View in LinkedIn