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The success of the ALPHA antimatter research this week is now facing controversy after a Christian truther publication branded CERN as anti-christ. This group of religious conspiracy theorists accused the European Organization for Nuclear Research for manifesting a 'hell on earth' during the experiment.

Two days ago, CERN published a paper in the journal "Nature" that revealed their observations of the light spectrum of antimatter. CERN houses the Large Hadron Collider machine which was developed to recreate the conditions immediately after the big bang. Scientists spent decades devising a technique that will create antimatter.

This week, CERN scientists managed to tickle atoms of antimatter and make it shine. However, certain religious groups including the Christian Truther publication criticized the research organization for performing these experiments.

According to the Daily Mail, Christian Truther wrote an article about the ALPHA experiment that contains many scientific inaccuracies. The article's author, Emily, said that "CERN is building the kingdom of the antichrist, hell on earth." She described antimatter as demonically charged particle that would bring chaos and destruction.

The CERN ALPHA antimatter study is lauded by the scientific community as an important step towards unraveling what happened to all the antimatter created in the Big Bang. Jeffrey Hangst of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said the experiment's feat opens up a new branch of inquiry into physics' understanding of Big Bang.

The CERN antimatter community spent over 20 years before it successfully measured the optical spectrum of an antimatter atom. For Hangst, this achievement opens up a new era in high-precision antimatter research.

Further experiment will be conducted by Hangst and colleagues to refine their antimatter research. His group aims to map the atomic spectrum of antihydrogen.

For those who are not involved in the ALPHA antimatter research, the observations made by Hangst's team would be worthy of a Nobel Prize. One of them is physicist Guido Drexlin of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology who commended the team discovering a difference between matter and antimatter.

CERN's ALPHA experiment is briefly described in the video below. Share your thoughts on the article in the comment section.