NC State Creates Most Powerful Positron Beam Ever

eldavojohn writes "A fairly large breakthrough took place earlier this month with the most powerful man-made antimatter electron beam ever being created at North Carolina State University. Professor Hawari who worked on the project explains its benefits: 'The idea here is that if we create this intense beam of antimatter electrons — the complete opposite of the electron, basically — we can then use them in investigating and understanding the new types of materials being used in many applications.'"

Obligatry

[Avitor]

Whatever you do, don't cross the streams...

Opposite of electrons...

[newgalactic]

So, will it make my Ironman watch run backwards? OR block out all neural activity?

Re:Opposite of electrons...

[monkeyboythom]

Actually, it blocks out all positive thinking. Sheesh! Some scientist you are...

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[Anonymous Coward]

Professor Hawari who worked on the project explains its benefits: 'The idea here is that if we create this intense beam of antimatter electrons -- the complete opposite of the electron, basically -- we can then use them in investigating and understanding the new types of materials being used in many applications.'"

He added: " We are not quite sure how long it will take to miniaturize the technology for shark mounted applications, but we expect this to be investigated thoroughly in the future"

Re:Hmmm...

[Anonymous Coward]

Or a Val Kilmer movie.

sharks

[hoto0301]

how soon can we affix these beams to sharks' heads?

I for one . . .

[cashman73]

I for one welcome our new Tarheel Overlords! :-)

In seemingly unrelated news, Duke University ceases to exist, somehow evaporated by a wave of unknown positron emission energy. But little seem to care, since Duke sucks anyways!

Use it on drug resistant bacteria

[cryfreedomlove]

I'd like my doctor to have one of these new fangled ray gun thingies just in case I become infected with some of that super duper bacteria I keep hearing about.

She can't take much more of this!

[HaeMaker]

I've seen Scotty create beams of antimatter with two phasers and a tricorder, big whoop.

Re:So who will mount these on sharks?

[Foobar of Borg]

Jesus Christ, dude. Will you please let this fucking "joke" die?

In Soviet Russia, joke fucks YOU!

Long Lost Brother

[Anonymous Coward]

Professor Hawari

The last know, and by far the most sucessful, member of the Fuckarwe tribe.

uh o

[moogied]

The reactor is a huge recruiting tool," Hawari said. "After they get exposure to the reactor and the facilities online at their own universities, many of them become excited"

My god.. there making mutants.

I have a radical idea...

[PixelScuba]

...We'll cross the streams.

Re:Obligatry

[cytg.net]

"The reactor is a huge recruiting tool," Hawari said. "After they get exposure to the reactor and the facilities online at their own universities, many of them become excited about the possibility of coming to NC State for hands-on experience.""

- excited or radient ?

Re:Obligatry

[opieum]

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Antimatter the same crap that Star Trek says is bad. Malon Frieghters (people in hazmat suits without helmets real smart bunch there) polluted space with that stuff in Voyager, Warp Cores on starships explode when antimatter leaks and all that fun stuff and here we are making laser beams of the shit? Yep I see lots more military applications there than I do "Scientific"

Re:Jesus Christ in a Chicken Basket

[clarkcox3]

I think you mean NUKYULAR!

Re:Obligatry

[snoyberg]

Yes, Star Trek says it's dangerous, therefore it MUST be a bad idea to investigate it...

And anyway, as a Trekkie, I can tell you that you're completely wrong; they use "anti-matter" drives. According to Star Trek, anti-matter is just as "bad" as gasoline: if something bad happens they both blow up.

Re:Jesus Christ in a Chicken Basket

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, with all those atoms and neuters floating around...

I'm not impressed

[gordgekko]

I won't be impressed until scientists are able to create an inverted tachyon pulse that solves any problems caused by spatial anomalies.

Re:Obligatry

[Nefarious Wheel]

"...many of them become excited..."

Do the students emit photons when they relax?

Re:Antimatter electron?

[Nefarious Wheel]

Sigh... such a lack of precision today. Nothing anti-matters anymore.

Yes, positrons are considered anti-matter. But you can call it what you want in your own Jeffries tubes.

Re:Obligatry

[markov_chain]

Definitely the latter. "The students practically radiate with curieosity" "The students' eyes scintillate with joy"

Re:I have a radical idea...

[jollyreaper]

...We'll cross the streams.

No, don't. The pee goes everywhere.

Re:Hmmm...

[Bravoc]

Hehe - I got it!

Let's fill this guys house with a whole shitload of unpopped popcorn see... and then we can take this beam see... and like point the beam at it and like... er... no, wait a minute

Re:Jesus Christ in a Chicken Basket

[Anonymous Coward]

Excuse me I'm looking for the nuclear wessels.

Nuclear wessels.

Re:Obligatry

[obeythefist]

Nah that was Theta radiation dude. Whatever that is. Go brush up on your particle of the month. Some people here wouldn't know a chronatron from a tribble.

Also, when do we get the stories of the police using weaponised versions of the antimatter gun on students?

"Don't positron me bro!"

Re:Obligatry

[guywcole]

According to the Stephen-Boltzmann law, yes.

Hey, did I just hear something fly over my head?

Re:Ghostbusters!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Electron microscopes can already image at the atomic level, but a positron microscope has advantages because it can give complimentary information

Oh. So, electrons charge for information?