{"id":374,"date":"2011-08-08T11:33:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T09:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/?p=374"},"modified":"2011-08-08T11:33:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T09:33:04","slug":"thats-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/2011\/08\/08\/thats-heavy\/","title":{"rendered":"That’s heavy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pun fully intended – a while back it was theorized that the Earth’s magnetic field might serve as a trap for antiprotons, which would be created either in the sun and expelled on the solar wind, or created by cosmic rays banging away at atmospheric atoms.<\/p>\n

Well, theory no more, observers have seen traces of the annihilation of those particles!<\/a>\u00a0(Warning – hard science on the other end of that link, so if you’re not big on physics, get a kleenex, that one might make your nose bleed.) \u00a0Seems we have a fairly sizable collection several hundred kilometers up, hanging around, just waiting for us to build the Enterprise ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pun fully intended – a while back it was theorized that the Earth’s magnetic field might serve as a trap for antiprotons, which would be created either in the sun and expelled on the solar wind, or created by cosmic … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,40,48,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-science","category-cosmology","category-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}