this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
60 points (100.0% liked)
Science
6885 readers
154 users here now
General discussions about "science" itself
Be sure to also check out these other Fediverse science communities:
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Not mentioned was how big the ---BOOM--- would be if the container jar failed.
Only 92 antiprotons, antimatter annihilation is famously energetic but that's still a tiny amount, I don't think you'd even see anything happen without special equipment to detect it.
Yeah, I couldn't find it but I saw a funny quote about the energy quantity. Definitely in the "oscilloscope can detect it" order of power.
It's comically low and the next step, which is taking some anti protons to Dusseldorf for further study, would be a similar quantity.
Whoa, that's a pretty big BOO... oh.
Okay, thanks.
Not even enough to raise the temperature of the containment bottle by a degree. 92 antiparticles vs. trillions of atoms of steel and composite.
In previous articles the energy wouldn't have been enough to boil a cup of coffee.
"The device on Cern’s truck will carry about 1,000 antimatter particles, weighing about a billionth of a trillionth of a gram. Should the containment fail, and the antimatter make contact with normal matter, the resulting pulse of energy would be so feeble, the load doesn’t even warrant a radioactive label."
In another article the author wrote it was about the same energy it takes to press a key on a keyboard