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Please drive carefully: scientists plan to transport volatile antimatter for first time (www.theguardian.com)
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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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