Is There Anything Left in the Dream of Cold Fusion?(quantamagazine.org)
21 points by wawayanda 5 days ago | 3 comments
[–] explodes 4 days ago
[–] gus_massa 3 days ago
> They have even created hybrids of matter and antimatter, in which a nucleus containing protons is orbited by negatively charged antiprotons. In short, you can have regular hydrogen, muonic hydrogen, kaonic hydrogen, antiprotonic hydrogen, and so on.
Most of them live for a very short time, less than a millisecond. If you want to start with something that you can buy and put on your desktop try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water But beware that it's almost identical to normal water. (The other variants discussed in the article are more different but very expensive and short lived.)
[–] xhkkffbf 4 days ago
Yes. Those neutrons were real.
I wish I were a particle physicist... Such an amazing field, where you get to try to tear open the universe and peek inside.