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  #1 Kristy Houston on 04 May 12

   

  The antimatter has been very popular in the field of popular science, sci fi movies, and in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. Star Trek episodes, for one, has displayed smart ideas about the possibilities of a warp drive, or faster than light travels, by creating plasma with the use of matter/antimatter.
  In Brown's book, the antimatter is the particle discovered at a laboratory in CERN. It was said that it could be a missing piece to the long debate between science and religion where science claims something cannot be formed from nothing.
  
  The Majorana fermions in new technology news
  
  
  In these fictional ideas, or at least that's what most of us presume, the antimatter brings forth a lot of interesting things. The antimatter is explained as the antiparticle of matter as most things, if not all, come in pairs - men and women, yin and yang, fire and ice, matter and antimatter.
  
  The only disturbing theory is that once antimatter gets in touch to matter, the two annihilate each other. And there's no need to elaborate what that term means.
  
  But not until a researcher in the name of Vincent Mourikand Leo P. Kouwenhoven made a talk with the American Physical Society about a new technology news where he claimed he might have found the particle Majorana fermions. It's a fermion that is its own anti-particle.
  
  But let's not talk about how technical this particle can be by laying to you the many jargons that will just make your nose bleed. But a straight fact is, the existence of this particle was theorized in 1937 by Italian physicist Ettore Majorana. It might have been caused by the limitations of his days' technology, but Ettore Majorana never finished his research to support his theory.
  
  Ettore was never doubted as a brilliant physicist, and when he disappeared during a boat trip a year after he posted his theory, the idea almost disappeared with him. There were no definite explanations his disappearance has still remained a mystery.
  
  Decades after, Kouwenhoven and his team conducted a number of tests just to make sure that he got it right. The evidence is strong, as he claimed. With the Majorana fermion, it's said that it is the missing piece to the puzzle in the struggling research on how to carry bits of information on a quantum computer. They said since the Majorana fermions are easier to keep stable, it's a better and easier way to store information compared to atoms which are really unstable.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The antimatter has been very popular in the field of popular science, sci fi movies, and in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. Star Trek episodes, for one, has displayed smart ideas about the possibilities of a warp drive, or faster than light travels, by creating plasma with the use of matter/antimatter. <br /> In Brown's book, the antimatter is the particle discovered at a laboratory in CERN. It was said that it could be a missing piece to the long debate between science and religion where science claims something cannot be formed from nothing. <br /> <br /> The Majorana fermions in <a href="http://rapidtechreview.com/" rel="nofollow">new technology news</a> <br /> <br /> <br /> In these fictional ideas, or at least that's what most of us presume, the antimatter brings forth a lot of interesting things. The antimatter is explained as the antiparticle of matter as most things, if not all, come in pairs - men and women, yin and yang, fire and ice, matter and antimatter. <br /> <br /> The only disturbing theory is that once antimatter gets in touch to matter, the two annihilate each other. And there's no need to elaborate what that term means. <br /> <br /> But not until a researcher in the name of Vincent Mourikand Leo P. Kouwenhoven made a talk with the American Physical Society about a new technology news where he claimed he might have found the particle Majorana fermions. It's a fermion that is its own anti-particle. <br /> <br /> But let's not talk about how technical this particle can be by laying to you the many jargons that will just make your nose bleed. But a straight fact is, the existence of this particle was theorized in 1937 by Italian physicist Ettore Majorana. It might have been caused by the limitations of his days' technology, but Ettore Majorana never finished his research to support his theory. <br /> <br /> Ettore was never doubted as a brilliant physicist, and when he disappeared during a boat trip a year after he posted his theory, the idea almost disappeared with him. There were no definite explanations his disappearance has still remained a mystery. <br /> <br /> Decades after, Kouwenhoven and his team conducted a number of tests just to make sure that he got it right. The evidence is strong, as he claimed. With the Majorana fermion, it's said that it is the missing piece to the puzzle in the struggling research on how to carry bits of information on a quantum computer. They said since the Majorana fermions are easier to keep stable, it's a better and easier way to store information compared to atoms which are really unstable.</div>

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