Thursday, November 18, 2010

The pods are still *not* overloadin'—but getting there

Did you hear?

Now instead of mere nano-seconds, scientists had figured out how to capture and sustain real anti-matter for... longer.

Here's a more mainstream layman's take on this breakthrough—actually, just another step toward Cochrane's engine....

...And here's a more in-depth piece from Nature.com.


I just hope those CERN scientists have their core ejector systems in better shape than Starfleet usually did.

2 comments:

Dwight Williams said...

Doesn't CERN tend towards the cautious side on this sort of thing?

Larry Nemecek said...

So far they do!