Antimatter has been transported for the first time

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00950-w

91•leephillips•1h ago

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voidUpdate•43m ago

If containment was to fail, it the total energy released would have been approximately 2.766 * 10 ^ -8 J, so it wasn't particularly dangerous

comrade1234•39m ago

What is that in firecrackers?

Gemini says a firecracker releases 150 J, so yeah not a lot.

voidUpdate•36m ago

Wolfram Alpha says its approximately the kinetic energy of a mosquito in flight

schindlabua•20m ago

Which seems suprisingly high given that it's 92 protons worth of antimatter!

Anonbrit•35m ago

It's a fraction of the energy released when an unlit fire cracker is dropped an inch. Basically unmeasurable

vivid242•33m ago

It was on the radio here (I live on its route)- the ‚receiving’ physicist said it would be way less than what we catch anyway from daily cosmic radiation.

dylan604•33m ago

Baby steps on our way to a Dan Brown scene lighting up the night sky

AnimalMuppet•19m ago

For 92 protons? So 3*10^-10 J per proton?

For a tiny number, that is still insanely high...

alansaber•36m ago

Only 92 antiprotons but still an exciting feat

observationist•19m ago

You (briefly) have an antiproton in your possession around once a day, assuming you get an average amount of sunlight. Some days, you might even have two!

cluckindan•14m ago

This just in: seasonal affective disorder confirmed to be caused by antiproton deficiency

luc_•32m ago

Setting the plot for Angels and Demons... :D

Mirror: https://archive.ph/JkeMp

brumbelow•32m ago

“Antimatter in a truck” is great headline material, but the actual advance is portable precision instrumentation.

CERN can make/store the antiprotons, but not measure them as cleanly as they want because the facility itself introduces tiny magnetic fluctuations. So this is really a story about moving the sample to a quieter lab, not moving toward sci-fi antimatter batteries... for now

imhoguy•29m ago

Next milestone: put it in Warptruck™ as fuel

chuckadams•32m ago

Tell me this involved dilithium crystals. Please tell me this involved dilithium, I want to live in Gene's future.

swiftcoder•24m ago

I definitely was expecting "transported" to be some kind of teleportation when I clicked this link. Too much sci-fi!

fatbird•23m ago

Imagine the poor post-doc in the back of the truck, no seatbelt, watching and noting anything going on, while the driver is doing donuts in a parking lot to really stress-test the magnetic containment.

brendanfinan•20m ago

https://home.web.cern.ch/order

ozim•16m ago

Stop, driver should have license for hauling antimatter and as far as I believe no one is giving those out. That’s major offense in trucking industry.

post-it•11m ago

I'm glad we have an expert on Swiss commercial trucking regulations here.

elil17•4m ago

Yes, only anti-truckers can haul anti-matter since normal CDLs only let you transport ordinary matter. You have to be very careful not to let the anti-trucker go to a ordinary truck stop because things really go down if they run into a ordinary trucker.

eternauta3k•5m ago

What would a universe with equal amounts of matter and antimatter look like?