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World-Changing Antimatter Discoveries

While the Large Hadron Collider is looking for the Higgs boson, we’re on the verge of two huge antimatter-related breakthroughs. One could finally solve the universe’s oldest mystery, while the other could reveal strange new particles that are perfect for quantum computers.

The first result comes from CDF, one of the two long-running experiments at the now deactivated Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab. CDF physicists had been studying the decay of subatomic particles called D-mesons - particles made up of massive charm quarks that form in the decay of even heavier bottom quarks, which in turn decay into kaons and pions.

The other big antimatter-related result hasn’t come from a big particle accelerator but instead a nanowire in a Dutch laboratory. According to a team led by Leo Kouwenhoven of the Delft University of Technology, they have spotted what could be the first experimental evidence of Majorana particles, first proposed by Ettore Majorana over 70 years ago. These theoretical particles are a unique exception to the standard relationship of matter and antimatter, in that they don’t annihilate each other when they come into contact. Majorana realized in 1937 that a fermion with no electric charge would have a completely identical antiparticle, meaning pairs of these particles would be able to exist together without destroying one another. They’re remained strictly theoretical until now, when Kouwenhoven reported the first tentative evidence of their existence.

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Anorexia is a socially transmitted disorder and appears to be more prevalent in countries such as France where women are thinner than average, according to new research from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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You may have already heard that Pinterest drives more referral traffic than Google+, YouTube, and LinkedIn combined (a stat Modea made sure to include), but what you may not have known is that it’s the kind of traffic advertisers’ dreams are made of. Nearly a third of all Pinterest users have an annual household income of $100,000 or more, almost 70 percent are female and the largest age demographic represented on the site are people between 25 and 34. A recent study from Flurry Analytics found that the EXACT demographic Pinterest is most popular with is also the one that is the most valuable to mobile advertisers — young, upper-middle class and female.

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Moon and Venus by rudolf_henning on Flickr.

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Do people understand the implications of foreign central banks purchasing U.S. equities? That is: They are investing in U.S. stocks. Imagine if the Federal Reserve were a hedge fund... This is madness

#Fed #Capitalism #Monetary policy #central banks

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Is it concerning that the LightSquared deal is fading? I for one like the idea of data costs being reduced by half. Is the fuss about how LightSquareds network will interfere with GPS legitimate? The company claimed that those suppositions were based on bad research by another government agency.

#government #LightSquared #Phil Falcone #FCC #Telecommunications

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If you look deeper into these details there is a "carry forward" tax which makes it so they look like they posted a profit, but in reality they aren't as profitable as it looks. Also--GM hasn't paid a dime back to the government either but nobody talks about that.