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Please drive carefully: scientists plan to transport volatile antimatter for first time
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2026
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This is cool. It’s very small amounts.
The key issue is that they are making antimatter at CERN but the magnetic fields at CERN impede studying/analysing it.
Checking in with a nearby physicist, the amount is so small that even in the worse case it would be unlikely to set off a radiation detector.
In return for this sagesse, I was subjected to several witticisms on the detectable rate of decay in the bananas we have awaiting to be turned into banana bread.
I love that "banana for scale" is also applicable to radioactivity.