August 2, 2011

Some things cannot be used twice.


When I heard this morning on the Writer's Almanac that today is the anniversary of the experimental detection of antimatter by Carl Anderson in 1932, I thought back to last month's MIT symposium in honor of the 80th birthday of Prof. William Bertozzi, where I heard a speaker lament: "Unfortunately one cannot use antiprotons twice."

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