“Antimatter in a truck” is great headline material, but the actual advance is portable precision instrumentation.

CERN can make/store the antiprotons, but not measure them as cleanly as they want because the facility itself introduces tiny magnetic fluctuations. So this is really a story about moving the sample to a quieter lab, not moving toward sci-fi antimatter batteries... for now

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zahlman 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, it's really impressive to me that they can make antiparticles, put them in a container, count them, transport them and count them again.

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GolfPopper 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nonetheless, "moving antimatter by truck" is pretty SF. More grounded than epic space opera, but stillvery cool.

	▲	dekhn 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It almost could be a Hollywood movie in the vein of Sorceror. Couple of grizzled CERN vets transporting a volatile load of antimatter across a post-apocalyptic wasteland while being chased by energy terrorists.

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imhoguy 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Next milestone: put it in Warptruck™ as fuel

	▲	antonvs 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A certain car company CEO is about to announce the availability of that in "5-10 years"

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sincerely 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

AI slop account

	▲	brumbelow 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		wtf? you're slop lol