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World first: antimatter particles transported in Geneva (www.swissinfo.ch)

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For the first time in the world, antimatter is being transported by road at CERN in Geneva. The test carried out on Tuesday at the nuclear research centre is intended to prove that the antiparticles can be transported safely.

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[–] aburrito@sh.itjust.works 60 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

This is super cool. So it was anywhere from 100-1k anti protons transported 5 km, and my fave bit from the article

According to CERN, if the trap fails during transport, the energy released will be around one millionth of a joule – about as much as it takes to press a keyboard key.

Neat!

[–] CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That is an insane amount of energy for something so little

[–] aburrito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

Oh definitely. I’m not a physicist but I’m pretty sure the matter-anti matter reaction is like near perfect efficiency right? So all of those particles plus the non anti pairs converted virtually entirely to energy, that’s a lot

Question for any particle physicists if one stumbles on this thread, iirc most of the mass in hadrons is from the internal QCD interactions, so is that reaction’s energy also largely from the quark anti-quark interactions? If so I mean, trying to comprehend the quarks interacting between the particles in the reaction twists my brain somehow

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

which direction did they design it to fail tho

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What type of key switch though?

[–] aburrito@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

Asking the important questions