A trapped positron, cooled almost to absolute zero and held away from every wall, can now be nudged one quantum at a time to test antimatter.
The Vatican better have Robert Langdon on speed dial.
A trapped positron, cooled almost to absolute zero and held away from every wall, can now be nudged one quantum at a time to test antimatter.
The Vatican better have Robert Langdon on speed dial.
The headline smells sloppy to me. A bit close to the super common pattern of “Z did Y to an X, and it W”
I didn’t notice it in the article itself (and even saw a typo) but I’m not terribly sensitive to that stuff anyway.
I got that feeling too. “The exact second it touches” is another tell, since even a layman knows that this happens on a timescale much smaller than seconds. A human would write “the exact instance” or “at the precise moment” or something that specifies the instantaneity of it.
The original paper/article is here: https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/gbkc-6nlj
You’re overestimating: https://xkcd.com/2501/
Besides, even knowing that, I’d read it as a figure of speech. And that still happens at that second, technically