The toe of GodFollow

/immature
/snicker

Also, and this impressed me quite a bit... has anyone else noticed that as soon as you scroll to the last line in the article, the little slide-in window at the bottom right appears with the next suggested article? Very nice work, NY Times.

As for the article,



Makes perfect sense from a layman's perspective. Particles that change to matter more quickly than they do antimatter will inevitably spend more time existing as matter, resulting in an imbalance, and eventually, us. Interesting stuff.

Polonius and Gertrude nearly had him sussed:

Polonius:
Your noble son is mad:
Mad call I it, for to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
But let that go.

Queen:
More matter with less art.

Polonius:
Madam, I swear I use no art at all
That he's mad, 'tis true, 'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity 'tis 'tis true—a foolish figure,
But farewell it, for I will use no art.

Score one for the local boys over at Fermi!

It's a shame the way we dropped the ball and allowed the new collider to go over to Europe.

Go for the space laser instead imo.

You guys recall the Superconducting Supercollider (SSC) cancelled in 1993 (after 15 miles of tunnels were dug)?

It would have had about 3x the energy of the LHC.

Also: very cool article Samira! I actually didn't realize this was not well established. When I finished undergrad around the mid-1990's there was a shiny new theory which purported to explain matter–antimatter asymmetry and literally until 10 minuets ago I would have told you that. However, turns out that didn't work out. The most recent review article on the topic from 2003 begins with:

"Although the origin of matter-antimatter asymmetry remains unknown, continuing advances in theory and improved experimental limits have ruled out some scenarios for baryogenesis, for example, sphaleron baryogenesis at the electroweak phase transition in the Standard Model. At the same time, the success of cosmological inflation and the prospects for discovering supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider have put some other models in sharper focus. "

http://rmp.aps.org/abstract/RMP/v76/i1/p1_1

Clinton tried to prevent the cancellation, actually. Congress decided it was too expensive (and of course its cost had ballooned, so they had a point).

I should take the kid by Fermi Lab now that he's old enough to understand it. Also, they have buffalo wandering around there.

I spent some time at Stanford's linear accelerator when I was in my teens. My dad was on the realignment project after the '89 quake. 2 miles long with tolerances of 3 microns (3 millionths of a meter). Interesting place.

Well that's one way to experience rebirth.

Sweet of you as that is, I would have declined.

I interned at Fermi one summer while in college. The first week I was there a cat had gotten lost in the tunnel and died and it smelled awful. Very interesting place.

If you think dead cats are interesting, let me show you some alleys you should find enthralling...

I just found the phrase "evil-twin" to describe antimatter amusing, as if somehow we were lucky that we aren't made up of antimatter. Not to be obvious or anything, but if the universe had decided to give antimatter the edge instead of matter, we'd just have switched the labels. It's not like we'd be able to tell the difference...