How did that happen? If creating particles you make the same exact amount of matter and antimatter, how could antimatter run out first? That's a major issue for particle physicists. It's not entirely a mystery, but not yet settled either.
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Ancient romans didn't know much about particle physics [citation needed]. But they were REALLY into metallurgy! They mined incredibly high amounts of iron, lead and copper - much more than any later preindustrial society in the West.
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Given how much they traded in the mediterranean, a substantial amount of lead sunk in shipwrecks. And it's still there, underwater - millennia old lead, almost perfectly pure.
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Roman lead from ancient shipwreck makes the shielding for the CUORE experiment. The detectors are deep under a mountain, kept colder than interstellar space, surrounded by ancient lead. Sounds like it could double as a demon's prison tbh.
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CUORE so far did not find any "Bob" event, but set the world's most stringent limits on their frequency ("if there were more than X events, we'd know by now"), advancing our understanding of reality.
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Retrieving the roman lead was a joint venture between physicis and history research agencies - historians kept all the parts with writings or other historically significant data, physicists kept the rest.
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I'll tell the truth, the historians involved weren't thrilled about it - they weren't happy about melting down roman lead. But while I'm REALLY passioned about preserving history, for once I don't care tbh: it was literally shapeless lead.
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Not everything old is of great historical value. On the other hand, as a particle shield that lead is a literally irreplaceable resource. I like the idea of something so ancient directly contributing to something so modern.
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Well, that was is. Sorry for the long-ass thread. Also, whoever AKSHUALLIES me about physics will be utterly ignored, I know I made simplifcations - particle physics really isn't a newbie friendly topic.
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