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RE: When Elena met Isolde, aka the antimatter CERN tour on the back of a puma
You say..
"Therefore, in order to study antimatter, it has to be kept away from any single particle of matter. "
then..
"The role of Elena is then to slow these antiprotons down to very small speeds, so that they could be easily trapped in order to be provided to the antimatter experiments. For instance, with slowly-moving antiprotons, it becomes kind of easy to produce anti-hydrogen."
Yeah, but I still don't understand how this stops them from reacting with matter and go kaboom? The link to metallica doesn't really help :P
In fact, magnetic fields are helping. We are dealing with a magnetic trap preventing particles and antiparticles to meet.
Vey heavy heavy metal as you can see ;)
Aha! Now it makes sense. Although I wouldnt call metallica heavy metal. More like country music XD
Or classical music. This helps my son to fall asleep ;)