• Senator Collins@aussie.zone
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    6 hours ago

    Well, there are a lot of particles going around the universe all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that transporting 92 antiprotons in a specially designed bottle that traps the particles using magnetic fields on the back of a truck, taking a 30-minute journey around the lab’s site isn’t safe.

    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
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      2 hours ago

      magnetic field fluctuates

      This just in… I have been informed that the antiprotons are no longer in the environment.

    • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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      4 hours ago

      Not even enough to raise the temperature of the containment bottle by a degree. 92 antiparticles vs. trillions of atoms of steel and composite.

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      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.

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        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.