Uncertain Principle: Trapped Antihydrogen
What’s the point of making antimatter if you can’t use it to blow stuff up? The point is to understand the laws of physics better. If you can do spectroscopy of anti-atoms, it will tell us a lot about whether antimatter obeys the same laws as ordinary matter, which might provide a clue as to why everything we see seems to be made of ordinary matter. You could also use it to test how antimatter interacts with gravity, which is something we don’t currently have any way to test.
Oh God, oh God, oh God… antihydrogen Lamb shift!
Revelation 13:11, “And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.” Grant funding for this one as an earmark is a cake walk if they wait for the 2011 Republican Congress. Or, apply to Nordita (Roslagstullsbacken 23, 106 91 Stockholm),
Uppenbarelseboken 13:11, “Och jag såg ett annat vilddjur stiga upp ur jorden; det hade två horn, lika ett lamms, och det talade såsom en drake.”
It’s all good.