Saturday, October 22, 2011

Plane lightning strike lab opens

BBC Story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15295608
quick summary: A £1.6m laboratory to investigate the effects of lightning strikes on aircraft 
opens in Cardiff.
 
This may not seem to relate to antimatter at all, but this is a lab that tests the effects of lightning strikes. If, in fact, the lightning behaves in the lab the same way it does naturally then it could be used to produce antimatter like natural lightning does. It would require some complex set-up to capture the antimatter but it may work. This would help advance antimatter technology and get us closer to cool new developments.