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Sorin Adam Matei

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Tag: antimater

An academic grant worth the cost of an aircraft carrier?

What you say if you got a $1.5 BILLION grant?  Samuel Ting (Nobel Prize laureate, 1974, MIT professor) got precisely this amount over 10 years to put a new experimental device in space. The device was meant to detect anti-matter. Although intriguing,…