#antimatter

j43147j43147
2025-06-11

I do hope you are capable of discerning between e.coli and black-light? Because people seem to be confused as to which substance is compatible with which...

Rowan Brad QuniQNFO@mstdn.science
2025-06-05

In the next printing of Sapiens its author may want to reconsider the claim that #relativity isn't a #religion. There are many #science #gods that #physics venerates as #animist #supernatural phenomena: #darkmatter, #darkenergy, #antimatter, #muon and #higgsboson #particles; a #blackhole, the #bigbang, #multiverse and #quantumphysics* are all effectively a #belief #system.

As someone once replied to me, dismissively: "I only believe in the Standard Model"

(*Note I said quantum "physics")

Venn diagram in Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens showing religion intersecting circles "human norms and values" and "belief in superhuman order." A point labeled "theory of relativity" is in the latter circle only. A caption below reads: "The theory of relativity is not a religion because (at least so far) there are no human norms and values that are founded on it."
Mr Tech Kingmrtechking
2025-05-23

CERN's on a roll. They've cracked antimatter transport, successfully trucking these elusive particles. This breakthrough means more precise research can happen beyond their labs. First long-haul trip to Germany soon.

Antimatter Hits the Road: CERN's World-First Transport Test.
2025-05-22

CERN plan to move antimatter across Europe in a truck:

arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

If this isn’t ripe for a sophisticated hijacking operation by a megalomaniacal super villain I don’t know what is. We all know what happens when matter and antimatter collide!

#cern #antimatter #ItsTheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-05-22

🛳️🚀 Ah, CERN's grand plan: like it's Amazon Prime, because who wouldn't want their very own universe-ending package delivered on time? 📦😜 Next up, shipped via FedEx – signature required, naturally. 😂
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

🔏 Matthias Wiesmannthias
2025-05-21
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io
2025-05-20

#CERN gears up to ship #antimatter across #Europe
The antimatter containment device has to be maintained as an extreme vacuum and needs superconducting materials to produce the electromagnetic fields that keep the antimatter from bumping into the walls of the container. All of that means a significant power supply, along with a cache of liquid helium to keep the superconductors working. A standard shipping container just won't do.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

2025-05-20

Transporting antimatter on roads across Europe: milestone achieved.

Antimatter can be produced at the European nuclear research centre CERN, but not precisely researched.

An important milestone has now been reached on the way to transporting antimatter to research facilities throughout Europe.

mediafaro.org/article/20250520

#Antimatter #CERN #Physics #Research #Science

2025-05-20

So cool (5° K): transporting protons around in a container, to prepare for antimatter transport!

Not for a rocket with antimatter drive, but to study them far from Cern's powerful magnets. The goal is to reach Germany, 700km away, where a new research facility is being built to study antimatter.

arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

#physics #antimatter

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Lazarou
2025-05-19
Ghandi from the original Civilisation game says:


0 most untrustworthy lender of the
infidels, hear now the most exalted 
President: Gandhi of the Indians. 
Our words are backed 
with n̶u̶c̶l̶e̶a̶r̶ ̶w̶e̶a̶p̶o̶n̶s̶ ANTIMATTER
Ars Technica Newsarstechnica@c.im
2025-05-19

CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe arstechni.ca/uEf2 #antimatter #Science #Physics #CERN

The Matter with Antimatter (SLAC Summer Lecture Series, 2002)

media.cooleysekula.net/w/gty4j

Vermont Citizen ScientistWIC4SCI@sciencemastodon.com
2025-05-18

Stuff of science fiction and fantasy? How to transport anti-matter? nature.com/articles/d41586-025 (Whom you gonna call?) #physics #antimatter

universeinthelab_enFAIR_GSI_en@helmholtz.social
2025-05-15

🚚Transporting antiprotons in a truck from Switzerland to Germany? For the first time, the BASE research collaboration was able to relocate protons outside of a laboratory with the help of a Penning-trap.

This breakthrough marks a significant step toward transporting antiprotons produced at CERN to high-precision laboratories such as HHU Düsseldorf.
More 👉 gsi.de/start/aktuelles/details

©B.M. Latacz, J. Jaeger, BASE
#particleacclerator #antimatter #science #physics

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Lazarou
2025-05-14

Learning so much about Antimatter today....

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Lazarou
2025-05-14

The ultimate desktop toy...an antimatter factory!

Now we're living in the future Buckeroo Banzai promised!

Other (Seemingly Destructive) Uses

Scientists working at the University of Michigan have built an antimatter "gun’ that can sit
right on your desk (pesky coworkers beware the day this goes on the market).

Yet, althoughit's called a "gun." that word is in quotes for a reason. Really, the device is a mini
positron creator. Instead of using the huge particle accelerator at CERN to make positrons,
this device can create and "spew short bursts of positrons”

Building on work by researchers at the University of Texas, the team at UM build a device less
than a meter long that generates both short bursts of electrons and positrons. Though the
emissions last just 30 femtoseconds, they produce quadrillions of positrons. This is a
comparable number to those created by the particle accelerator at CERN.

So, if we can't use this to shoot at our desk mates (I'm looking at you, Dave) what's it good for?
Well, the emissions are very similar to what makes up the jet streams from black holes and
pulsars. By studying how the device works, questions about the energy composition and how
the particles in the streams interact with outside environments can be answered.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Lazarou
2025-05-14

Turns out it wouldn't be the end of the world if you had such a doomsday device, but more interestingly for non-supervillains you can kick start Fusion reactions with it.

futurism.com/strange-science-c

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Lazarou
2025-05-14

Planning to heist some antimatter and get the hell off this planet......

.....by selling it on the Galactic Black Market in exchange for a starship.

00:46 An antimatter delivery van takes its first road trip

Researchers have developed a portable antimatter containment device and tested it by
putting itina truck and driving it around CERN. Their system could represent a big step
forward in efforts to take particles made at CERN’s ‘antimatter factory’ and transport them to
other labs, something currently impossible due to antimatter being destroyed upon contact
with matter. The team showed the feasibility of their approach by using the system to safely
transport particles of matter and are now looking to adapt it to ferry antimatter particles.

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