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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bullshit dangerous. If something goes wrong, there's a few joules of Gamma radiation in the box and that's it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Yes, the headline sucks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not a bad article, but horrendously clickbaity headline.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Seems they were using the premise of Angels and Demons to make it 'entertaining'.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

We believe the big bang produced the same amounts of matter and antimatter.

Count Basie’s Big Band? I knew they were good, but….

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought we were only able to produce antimatter in minuscule amounts. How the hell does anyone have a “truckload“ of it?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

it's cause you need an entire truck of scientific instruments to contain it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That’s what I figured, but that doesn’t really mean there’s a “a truckload” of antimatter, just in antimatter containment equipment. The actual amount of antimatter is probably very tiny.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

The headline is misleading clickbait, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Jesus, that headline is fucking atrocious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So, what anti-element is this anti matter? Anti-helium?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

To achieve this goal, Cern scientists have built transportable devices containing superconducting magnets, cryogenic cooling systems and vacuum chambers where antiprotons can be trapped, avoiding contact with normal matter, and carried on seven-tonne lorries.

Antiprotons. So basically an anti-hydrogen ion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's like Tenet. I think we're in the front wards bit but it is hard to tell