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brumbelowtoday at 3:52 PM4 repliesview on HN

“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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zahlmantoday at 6:36 PM

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.

GolfPoppertoday at 4:38 PM

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

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imhoguytoday at 3:56 PM

Next milestone: put it in Warptruck™ as fuel

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sincerelytoday at 4:59 PM

AI slop account

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