• @[email protected]
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    2128 days ago

    Bullshit dangerous. If something goes wrong, there’s a few joules of Gamma radiation in the box and that’s it.

  • @Carrolade
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    1228 days ago

    Not a bad article, but horrendously clickbaity headline.

  • @[email protected]
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    928 days ago

    We believe the big bang produced the same amounts of matter and antimatter.

    Count Basie’s Big Band? I knew they were good, but….

  • EleventhHour
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    928 days ago

    I thought we were only able to produce antimatter in minuscule amounts. How the hell does anyone have a “truckload“ of it?

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        28 days ago

        That’s what I figured, but that doesn’t really mean there’s a “a truckload” of antimatter, just in antimatter containment equipment. The actual amount of antimatter is probably very tiny.

  • @Crackhappy
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    628 days ago

    Jesus, that headline is fucking atrocious.

  • CrimeDad
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    328 days ago

    So, what anti-element is this anti matter? Anti-helium?

    • Admiral Patrick
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      To achieve this goal, Cern scientists have built transportable devices containing superconducting magnets, cryogenic cooling systems and vacuum chambers where antiprotons can be trapped, avoiding contact with normal matter, and carried on seven-tonne lorries.

      Antiprotons. So basically an anti-hydrogen ion.

        • @[email protected]
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          228 days ago

          Anti-dueterium would need the anti-proton to be bound to an anti-neutron (with an orbiting positron if you wanted neutral anti-deuterium)

        • @ricdeh
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          228 days ago

          No, it is not deuterium. The thing that differentiates deuterium from “normal” hydrogen is a neutron, while here, we are only talking of antiprotons (without antineutrons or positrons).

  • @WhiteOakBayou
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    128 days ago

    It’s like Tenet. I think we’re in the front wards bit but it is hard to tell