• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    Bullshit dangerous. If something goes wrong, there’s a few joules of Gamma radiation in the box and that’s it.

    • Admetus@sopuli.xyz
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      Seems they were using the premise of Angels and Demons to make it ‘entertaining’.

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    I thought we were only able to produce antimatter in minuscule amounts. How the hell does anyone have a “truckload“ of it?

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        That’s what I figured, but that doesn’t really mean there’s a “a truckload” of antimatter, just in antimatter containment equipment. The actual amount of antimatter is probably very tiny.

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    We believe the big bang produced the same amounts of matter and antimatter.

    Count Basie’s Big Band? I knew they were good, but….

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      To achieve this goal, Cern scientists have built transportable devices containing superconducting magnets, cryogenic cooling systems and vacuum chambers where antiprotons can be trapped, avoiding contact with normal matter, and carried on seven-tonne lorries.

      Antiprotons. So basically an anti-hydrogen ion.

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          Anti-dueterium would need the anti-proton to be bound to an anti-neutron (with an orbiting positron if you wanted neutral anti-deuterium)

        • Richard@lemmy.world
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          No, it is not deuterium. The thing that differentiates deuterium from “normal” hydrogen is a neutron, while here, we are only talking of antiprotons (without antineutrons or positrons).