BaalChatzaf Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 (edited) Simon van der Meer who shared the 1983 Nobel Prize with Carlo Rubio died at 85. Van der meer used proton/anti-proton interaction to generate enough energy to reveal weak force interactions. The weak force is what makes radioactive decay and fusion happen.Shades of Star Trek! Using a matter/anti-matter annihilation to produce a useful laboratory result! What a clever experimenter he was. It is the experimenters who keep physics honest.Ba'al Chatzaf Edited March 12, 2011 by BaalChatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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