{"id":7107,"date":"2010-11-18T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7107"},"modified":"2010-11-18T03:00:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T08:00:45","slug":"trapped-like-anti-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7107","title":{"rendered":"Trapped Like Anti-Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/trapped_antihydrogen.php\">Uncertain Principle:  Trapped Antihydrogen<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>What&#8217;s the point of making antimatter if you can&#8217;t use it to blow stuff up?<\/strong> 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&#8217;t currently have any way to test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncertain Principle: Trapped Antihydrogen What&#8217;s the point of making antimatter if you can&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7107\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}