CERN did it! Just in time for the holidays, they figured out how to isolate and suspend an anti-atom. Turns out the trick, grossly simplified, is making it really cold. Cold enough to make it really slow. And then a powerful enough magnetic field can work on it and keep it from zooming into a non-anti atom and annihilating itself.
Being able to squint at actual anti-particles is an important step toward figuring out how, in a universe supposedly made of matter and antimatter in roughly equal quantities, the world as we know it exists at all. Because it obviously -does- exist...right?
...right? (of course it does.)
Cold, isolated and suspended anti-hydrogen made us think of that last fruit on the tree in the middle of winter. This is a ripe pear chilled with white mint, snowy ozone, and fizz.
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