leephillips3d ago

Antimatter has been transported for the first time

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

Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN's truck

Physicists have succeeded for the first time in transporting the most expensive and most volatile substance on Earth — antimatter.

Show threadvoidUpdate
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
Mar 25 at 3:41pmWeb
Show threadcomrade12343d ago

What is that in firecrackers?

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

Show threadvoidUpdate3d ago
Wolfram Alpha says its approximately the kinetic energy of a mosquito in flight
Show threadschindlabua3d ago
Which seems suprisingly high given that it's 92 protons worth of antimatter!
Show threaddandellion3d ago
Definitely, I've had a mosquito hit me while flying and you can actually feel it hit your skin.
Show threadAnonbrit3d ago
It's a fraction of the energy released when an unlit fire cracker is dropped an inch. Basically unmeasurable
Show threadvivid2423d 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.
Show threaddylan6043d ago
Baby steps on our way to a Dan Brown scene lighting up the night sky
Show threadAnimalMuppet3d ago

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

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