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[–] 72 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Perfect time in history to just start transporting antimatter.

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  • [–] 75 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    The device on Cern’s truck will carry about 1,000 antimatter particles, weighing about a billionth of a trillionth of a gram. Should the containment fail, and the antimatter make contact with normal matter, the resulting pulse of energy would be so feeble, the load doesn’t even warrant a radioactive label.

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    They just need to transfer power from the car's inertial dampers to the containment field

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    its not like star trek, where they produces kgs at a time, which is nuclear level events if they "collide"

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    kgs

    For reference, a single kilogram of antimatter reacting with regular matter would create an explosion only slightly smaller than the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested, and well over a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

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