my understanding is that antimatter reacts with equal amounts of matter. If that is true the actual damage is quite small.

That may be the case but even a small Atomic explosion will do a lot of damage .

There is enough energy in the head of a mach stick to flatten a city and possibly the Earth .

E = M C squared

Thats true.
Antimatter was explained by Paul Dirac.

Islamic Republic of Pakistan to become Associate Member State of CERN

Geneva 19 December 2014. CERN Director General, Rolf Heuer, and the Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Ansar Parvez, signed today in Islamabad, in presence of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, a document admitting the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to CERN Associate Membership, subject to ratification by the Government of Pakistan.
“Pakistan has been a strong participant in CERN’s endeavours in science and technology since the 1990s,” said Rolf Heuer. “Bringing nations together in a peaceful quest for knowledge and education is one of the most important missions of CERN. Welcoming Pakistan as a new Associate Member State is therefore for our Organization a very significant event and I'm looking forward to enhanced cooperation with Pakistan in the near future.”

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/07/pakistan-becomes-associate-member-state-cern

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A meson is made up from a quark-antiquark pair. How come they do not annihilate?
Tullio

All we know is that quarks and leptons are smaller than 10^-19 meters in radius. As far as we can tell, they have no internal structure or even any size.
All mesons are unstable, with the longest-lived lasting for only a few hundredths of a microsecond.
Perhaps they decay faster than the annihilation to occur...

There you go, what have I always said? All that will happen is the the LHC will discover more smaller and different particles, it will NOT solve the Universe.

New particle

Solve the Universe???

Just some bloke saying how long is a piece of string .....

The smallest length that can be measured in the universe is 1,616 199(97) × 10−35 m[3].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units#Base_units

I read somewhere that if you could separate two quarks far enough from each other a third quark will be created...

Bait worked :-)

Bait is troll food.
This thread is Science (non-SETI) : CERN:)

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Thanks.
I see that a lot of experiments are about super symmetry.
Does it exist an anti Higgs boson that gives matter the opposite properties?
Dark matter perhaps...

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Thanks.
I see that a lot of experiments are about super symmetry.
Does it exist an anti Higgs boson that gives matter the opposite properties?
Dark matter perhaps...

We are not even sure whether the Higgs boson exists, let alone an anti Higgs boson! :D

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Thanks.
I see that a lot of experiments are about super symmetry.
Does it exist an anti Higgs boson that gives matter the opposite properties?
Dark matter perhaps...

We are not even sure whether the Higgs boson exists, let alone an anti Higgs boson! :D

What do you mean?
Higgs got a Nobel Prize in 2013 for the discovery.
He calls it the God Damn Particle. NOT God Particle.

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Thanks.
I see that a lot of experiments are about super symmetry.
Does it exist an anti Higgs boson that gives matter the opposite properties?
Dark matter perhaps...

We are not even sure whether the Higgs boson exists, let alone an anti Higgs boson! :D

What do you mean?
Higgs got a Nobel Prize in 2013 for the discovery.
He calls it the God Damn Particle. NOT God Particle.

I am still not sure but that's me..

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/19802/20141108/shocking-cern-may-not-have-discovered-elusive-higgs-boson-particle-after-all.htm

Particle physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research announced 2 years ago they had discovered the Higgs particle, considered the foundation particle in the Standard Model of Particle physics, and a Nobel Prize was awarded to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert for their work on the theory of the Higgs boson.

Now, though, researchers at the University of Southern Denmark's Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics Phenomenology suggest that while the CERN scientists did discover a unique new particle, there's no conclusive evidence of it being the Higgs boson.

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Why not? What questions still exist that make you question the existence of the Higgs Boson?

Why not? What questions still exist that make you question the existence of the Higgs Boson?

I edited my post and supported my personal claim with it.

Btw: http://realorsatire.com/techtimes-com/

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Thanks.
I see that a lot of experiments are about super symmetry.
Does it exist an anti Higgs boson that gives matter the opposite properties?
Dark matter perhaps...

We are not even sure whether the Higgs boson exists, let alone an anti Higgs boson! :D

What do you mean?
Higgs got a Nobel Prize in 2013 for the discovery.
He calls it the God Damn Particle. NOT God Particle.

I am still not sure but that's me..

The Higgs boson have not been detected as a particle yet.
Only as energy when other particles collides and energy are spread in different directions

Why not? What questions still exist that make you question the existence of the Higgs Boson?

I edited my post and supported my personal claim with it.

Btw: http://realorsatire.com/techtimes-com/

No worries, Julie. I was just curious what your reservations were about the potential finding.

I 100% support Julie. We have NOT conclusively found the Higgs Boson.

Now, though, researchers at the University of Southern Denmark's Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics Phenomenology suggest that while the CERN scientists did discover a unique new particle, there's no conclusive evidence of it being the Higgs boson.

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What do you mean?
Higgs got a Nobel Prize in 2013 for the discovery.
He calls it the God Damn Particle. NOT God Particle.

In post 1717866 1 hour later on the same day Janne said

The Higgs boson have not been detected as a particle yet.
Only as energy when other particles collides and energy are spread in different directions

???

I suggest you read and watch some Youtube clips from CERN.
Eat some popcorn as well and you get enlighted...
The God Damn Particle has been found!

University of Southern Denmark.
In 2013 CERN announced the finding of a new elementary particle, the Higgs particle. But maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle, maybe it just looks like it. And maybe it is not alone.
http://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/fakulteterne/naturvidenskab/nyheder_2014/2014_10_29_technihiggs

I suggest you read and watch some Youtube clips from CERN. The God Damn Particle has been found!

University of Southern Denmark.
In 2013 CERN announced the finding of a new elementary particle, the Higgs particle. But maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle, maybe it just looks like it. And maybe it is not alone.

Yes. And?
There are a few scientists that have some other ideas.
Scientists work like that.

The researchers' analysis does not debunk the possibility that CERN has discovered the Higgs particle. That is still possible - but it is equally possible that it is a different kind of particle.

The Higgs boson is a short lived particle which decays soon in other particles. It is not the Higgs boson that is important but the Higgs field, which gives mass to other particles, such as the intermediate vector mesons, hypothetized by Salam, Weinberg and Glashow and discovered at CERN by Rubbia and von Martens. The 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson was only the confirmation of the Glashow-Salam-Weinberg theory.
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Evidence suggests subatomic particles could defy the standard model

Now, a team of physicists working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has found new hints of particles—leptons, to be more precise—being treated in strange ways not predicted by the Standard Model. The discovery, scheduled for publication in the September 4, 2015 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters, could prove to be a significant lead in the search for non-standard phenomena.
The team, which includes physicists from the University of Maryland who made key contributions to the study, analyzed data collected by the LHCb detector during the first run of the LHC in 2011-12. The researchers looked at B meson decays, processes that produce lighter particles, including two types of leptons: the tau lepton and the muon. Unlike their stable lepton cousin, the electron, tau leptons and muons are highly unstable and quickly decay within a fraction of a second.

In the underneath event display from the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, proton-proton collisions at the interaction point (far left) result in a shower of leptons and other charged particles. The yellow and green lines are computer-generated reconstructions of the particles' trajectories through the layers of the LHCb detector.

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