At the very beginning of the universe, the Big Bang created equal parts matter and anti-matter, so scientists believe.
If the sets of matter were to ever meet, as particles come in pairs, then they would annihilate each other in a burst of energy.
But 80 years ago in 1937, Italian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana theorised that there is another class of particle known as fermions – one that is both matter and anti-matter.
The discovery could have huge implications in the world of technology, especially within quantum computers which have the potential to be HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of times more more powerful than a normal computer.
Hartmut Nevan, director of engineering at Google, claimed: “What a D-Wave does in a second would take a conventional computer 10,000 years to do.”
However, progress on a quantum computer has hit a snag of sorts – in simple terms the bits that carry information must be isolated from noise which has so far been difficult to achieve.
[Source:-express.co]
