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CERN claims to have created anti-hydrogen atoms in 1995 [1], and Fermilab confirmed the claim shortly after by doing the same thing. You're perfectly free to d
by charles-salvia 10y ago
CERN claims to have created anti-hydrogen atoms in 1995 [1], and Fermilab confirmed the claim shortly after by doing the same thing.
You're perfectly free to doubt these claims (for whatever strange reason), but doing so would be pretty arbitrary, unless you consistently distrust the entire scientific establishment, in which case, your "bullshit detector" is badly broken because it keeps reporting too many false positives and needs to be retrained.
[1] https://home.cern/topics/antimatter/antimatter-cern https://home.cern/topics/antimatter/antimatter-cern
- lngnmn 10y agoMy bullshit detector is quite simple actually. When I see a mathematical simulation (a probabilistic model) instead of a directly observed and measured natural phenomena we probably dealing with a socially constructed bullshit. It is the same kind of crap as CDS or any other modern sect but in theoretical physics - the way to earn a decent living by bullshitting mere mortals.
- charles-salvia 10y agoYour bullshit detector is hopelessly broken. At a certain point, these "mathematical simulations" (i.e. effects observed in a laboratory) end up having real world applications. Anti-matter has already crossed the threshold of being "effects observed in a laboratory" to actual applied science. Hospital PET scans use anti-matter regularly for brain scans. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission_tomography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission_tomography
- Helmet 10y agoI'm not educated in the subject, so I'm asking sincerely, but wasn't Higgs boson first speculated in a "mathematical / probabilistic" model, before being empirically confirmed through direct observation?
- lngnmn 10y agoThere wasn't any direct observation, only interpretation of the data from vastly complex instruments which has been made according to some set of beliefs (like Egyptian pyramids). That's the point - there were no direct observation. The "proof" of existence of, say, photons is that green thing outside your window. The proof of correctness of the atomic theory you could see in the mirror. The proof of existence of antimatter are some petabytes of data from some man-made tool.
- wavefunction 10y agoBullshit detectors aren't even real things.
- lutusp 10y agoIt appears that you're suffering from a bad case of confirmation bias. There's plenty of evidence for the existence of antimatter, one need only investigate with an open mind. > When I see a mathematical simulation (a probabilistic model) instead of a directly observed and measured natural phenomena [sic] ... Experimental report: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/PositronDiscovery.jpg/300px-PositronDiscovery.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Po... Also, "a ... phenomena" should be "a ... phenomenon".