09-22-2002, 06:00 PM
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FINALLY! Warp speed within our grasp!
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-958719.html
Ok, maybe I am being a bit optimistic, but this is the stuff of science fiction. "By corralling clouds of antimatter particles in a cylindrical chamber laced with detectors and electric and magnetic fields, the physicists assembled anti-hydrogen atoms, the looking glass equivalent of hydrogen, the most simple atom in nature. Whereas hydrogen consists of a positively charged proton circled by a negatively charged electron, in anti-hydrogen the proton's counterpart, a negatively charged anti-proton, is circled by an anti-electron, otherwise known as a positron. They then observed the flashes of energy when the new anti-hydrogen atoms annihilated themselves in collisions with ordinary matter in the walls of the chamber."
Next thing you know, we'll be crawling through Jeffries tubes aligning the EPS conduits to ensure the Bussard Collectors are operating within .92 of specs. The image is from Star Trek in Sound and Vision.
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