Antimatter has been transported for the first time
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- stevenalowe - 4508 sekunder sedanUnclear on the size of the apparatus require to secure the 92 anti-protons - did it occupy the entire truck?
- voidUpdate - 17382 sekunder sedanIf containment was to fail, it the total energy released would have been approximately 2.766 * 10 ^ -8 J, so it wasn't particularly dangerous
- swiftcoder - 16212 sekunder sedanI definitely was expecting "transported" to be some kind of teleportation when I clicked this link. Too much sci-fi!
- diwank - 5854 sekunder sedanAngels & Demons anyone?
- csense - 14410 sekunder sedanFrom a layman's point of view antimatter seems like an ideal spacecraft fuel. It's as energy dense as E = mc^2 allows, and if you have infrastructure to make it, the only input you need to produce it is electricity.
Being able to transport it seems like an important piece of that puzzle.
Production and storage would need to be scaled by many orders of magnitude, but that's merely an engineering problem...right?
- AStrangeMorrow - 11306 sekunder sedanI am curious about how much energy needs to be expanded to contain the anti-matter. Say it the matter/anti-matter is to be used for propulsion/energy generation can we reach a threshold were we are actually energy positive
- brumbelow - 16704 sekunder sedan“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
- aftbit - 14546 sekunder sedanHow could we make enough antimatter to do something useful? Would we need to go hang out near the sun or deorbit Jupiter's moons with superconducting coils to get enough energy?
- nout - 12071 sekunder sedanI was once transporting antipasti and no one wrote HN post about it :(
- brendanfinan - 16000 sekunder sedan
- luc_ - 16712 sekunder sedanSetting the plot for Angels and Demons... :D
Mirror: https://archive.ph/JkeMp
- eternauta3k - 15098 sekunder sedanWhat would a universe with equal amounts of matter and antimatter look like?
- Sardtok - 13982 sekunder sedanSounds like the start of research ending in antimatter bombs.
- alansaber - 16924 sekunder sedanOnly 92 antiprotons but still an exciting feat
- cozzyd - 13882 sekunder sedanpssh, antineutrinos are transported all the time!
- ck2 - 6599 sekunder sedanantimatter is not what the average person thinks it is from science-fiction
https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime/search?query=antimatte...
- d--b - 12669 sekunder sedanEvery time I read one of these, I am amazed by how much stuff superconductivity allows, and how limited we are because it needs ultra low temperatures.
- fatbird - 16156 sekunder sedanImagine 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.
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- chuckadams - 16699 sekunder sedanTell me this involved dilithium crystals. Please tell me this involved dilithium, I want to live in Gene's future.
- ozim - 15759 sekunder sedanStop, 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.
- bitbytebane - 16831 sekunder sedan[dead]
- dcuthbertson - 2328 sekunder sedanImagine your own, household matter/antimatter reaction chamber. I can hardly wait for antimatter to be transported through pipes underground along side water mains, natural gas pipes, and sewer connections.
Nördnytt! 🤓