The proof of antimatter:
Matter created in a lab
A report by:
RAdm. RM Wey
COSR: SFS-SFC
Antimatter as a physical object has been known to exist since the early part of the twentieth century. But the technology to manufacture such elements did not exist until the end of said century. Since antimatter and matter [when they meet], annihilate each other; A way was needed to be found to hold antimatter long enough for serious study. It has taken more than fifteen years, just to combine an antiproton with an antielectron…thus forming antihydrogen. This is accomplished as antiprotons are propelled through xenon gas. The xenon molecules produce positrons [antielectrons], which combine with the antiprotons to produce antihydrogen. Unfortunately, this method quickly destroys the very thing it produces. Research is being conducted to design a magnetic 'bottle' [or containment field, since antimolecules, such as antihydrogen being electrically neutral, are not attracted to conventional magnetic fields] in which to house the antihydrogen. It is possible, in the not too distant future that we may yet succeed in the full-scale manufacture of antimolecules. It may then be possible to combine these with 'normal' matter, to provide an unlimited source of power.
The Information Superhighway:
Breaking the Terabit barrier
A report by:
Comm. DL Wey
DCOSR: SFS-SFC
The office of Sci-Research continually seeks to find new and better advances in the scientific realm. One of these scientific disciplines, that of computer development and data storage and transmission, first found its roots in the twentieth century. Four facilities of the continental US were the first to break the terabit barrier. Some of these methods were crude and rather inefficient; The first was fiber optics, and while it could easily accommodate the level of information, the means to drive the beam worked at only 1/50th the speed. The second was to superimpose signals from many different laser beams of various colors; this was sometimes accomplished by splitting the beams into their component polarization's [so that the oscillation of one beam was perpendicular to those of another. Once encoded, they were recombined into one single beam. Alas, it would be many more years before the technology would be such as to provide a convenient and cost effective method to deliver information in a terabit format. This office strives to continue in that vein to increase the storage and transfer of information in a format both safe and secure.