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Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever (www.nature.com)

submitted 4 days ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/science@mander.xyz

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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

Whoa, that's a pretty big BOO... oh.

Okay, thanks.