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Dirty.

Oh... hello. I see you there. Yeah... you.

That's right, I see you, you little last Swiffer Sweeper Wet Mopping Cloth, overflowing with the cleansing juices of your long forgotten brothers and sisters--your entire family GONE but yet... you hang on to their stink, their belongings, their... essence, if you will, with all of your magical clinging powers which not only get up little tiny pebbles, but hairs and dust bunnies also... and you are the one I've really been waiting for.

Twenty-three of your brethren cast aside like so much floor dirt you so readily stuff your gaps with when they come anywhere near, like a microscopic Grand Canyon you are... but in reverse... and upside down... or something--BUT you are still a dirty little bitch when I get done with you.

I know you've been in there all alone for weeks--months now... but it is your time. You're so wet you're dripping out of your sides right when I pick you up, and yet... you say you don't want this? I can't say that I understand. You say no, but Wet Mopping Cloth--or as the French say linges humidifies--I know you want it... in America, wet always means "yes."

I place you gently over my wand, I can't... make it happen (if you know what I mean) unless everything is perfectly symmetrical, it's a problem I have and have recently learned about myself, when I am "in the moment" everything must be at 90-degree angles--and now that I have you draped, dripping onto my hands, perfectly lined up, I finger you into all four holes as fast as I can, so hard that I think you might tear, but as you've shown me, you may look innocent, but you learned much from watching your family grow-up... you stay. You are stronger than I thought you were.

The second you touch my floor (I've been saving months of dirt for you) you show me what you've really learned. Your juices explode onto the fake wood of my 200 square foot apartment and you begin lapping up everything you've released. I laugh, but you are not deterred, you are so wet that you get every drop, every last speck of dirt, pubic hair and dried semen that's been on the ground for however long the Misses has been away and you store it all away in your magical crevasses that I've been waiting to know through 23 of your less experienced and far less thrilling kin.

I've made a new mess for you... do you think you can handle it?

El Barto

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Magnetically trapped atoms could test fundamental physics.

Yeah, I have no idea what the hell this means either.

Eugenie Samuel Reich

For physicists, a bit of antimatter is a precious gift indeed. By comparing matter to its counterpart, they can test fundamental symmetries that lie at the heart of the standard model of particle physics, and look for hints of new physics beyond. Yet few gifts are as tricky to wrap. Bring a particle of antimatter into contact with its matter counterpart and the two annihilate in a flash of energy.

Now a research collaboration at CERN, Europe's particle-physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, has managed, 38 times, to confine single antihydrogen atoms in a magnetic trap for more than 170 milliseconds. The group reported the result in Nature online on 17 November¹. "We're ecstatic. This is five years of hard work," says Jeffrey Hangst, spokesman for the ALPHA collaboration at CERN.

An antihydrogen atom is made from a negatively charged antiproton and a positively charged positron, the antimatter counterpart of the electron. The objective — both for ALPHA and for a competing CERN experiment called ATRAP — is to compare the energy levels in antihydrogen with those of hydrogen, to confirm that antimatter particles experience the same electromagnetic forces as matter particles, a key premise of the standard model. "The goal is to study antihydrogen and you can't do it without trapping it," says Cliff Surko, an antimatter researcher at the University of California, San Diego. "This is really a big deal."

The ALPHA claim is the first major advance since the creation of thousands of antihydrogen atoms in 2002 by a forerunner experiment called ATHENA² and by ATRAP³ (see 'A brief history of antimatter'). Both experiments combined decelerated antiprotons with positrons at CERN to produce antihydrogen atoms. But, within several milliseconds, the atoms annihilated with the ordinary matter in the walls of their containers.

To prevent that from happening, the ALPHA team formed antihydrogen atoms in a magnetic trap. Although not electrically charged like antiprotons and positrons, antihydrogen — like hydrogen — has a more subtle magnetic character that arises from the spins of its constituent particles. The ALPHA researchers used an octupole magnet, produced by the current flowing in eight wires, to create a magnetic field that was strongest near the walls of the trap, falling to a minimum at the centre, causing the atoms to collect there. To trap just 38 atoms, the group had to run the experiment 335 times. "This was ten thousand times more difficult" than creating untrapped antihydrogen atoms, says Hangst — ATHENA made an estimated 50,000 of them in one go in 2002. To do spectroscopic measurements, Surko estimates that up to 100 antihydrogen atoms may need to be trapped at once.

ATRAP still hopes to reach that goal first. In a paper due out in Physical Review Letters, the collaboration reports that it has efficiently separated antiprotons from the cold electrons that are used to cool them down, a step towards creating slower-moving antihydrogen atoms that might stay trapped for longer. "Rather than trying to demonstrate that we can confine 38 antihydrogen atoms for a small fraction of a second, we are working on new methods to produce and trap much larger numbers of colder atoms," says Gerald Gabrielse, ATRAP's spokesman. "We shall see which approach is more fruitful."

Two other collaborations aim to study antihydrogen. In 2003, the international ASACUSA experiment at CERN proposed a scheme to create a beam of antihydrogen atoms⁴. Yasunori Yamazaki, an atomic physicist at the Advanced Science Institute in Saitama, part of Japan's RIKEN network of research labs, now says the group has produced such a beam and may be able to use it to study the energy levels in antihydrogen without needing to trap the atoms. Another CERN experiment called AEgIS is starting to compare the effect of gravity on antihydrogen with that on ordinary hydrogen. Antimatter is almost certain to fall at the same rate as normal matter, but if it doesn't the results could help scientists to distinguish between alternative approaches to unifying quantum theory with general relativity.

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