Lol, us old members talked about this extensively, for like decades. Theres a old conspiracy about a guy who was pretty sure he found part of it and wanted to blow his way into it, and was basically evicted by the government there before he could do anything.
On a random note....
Im surprised no ones talked about the cern antimatter transport truck.
Im fairly certain one of the old members linked a conspiracy video years ago, I cant remember really when (my phosphorous has been fucked lately i think), or what the video was even about it.
But it talked about this antimatter and how they were transporting it with a special truck, I think it may have been for the purpose of starship fuel.
My jaw dropped when I read that, whoever made that video had some kind of insider knowledge about this.
Just a gram of the stuff is capable of destroying the entire planet if I remember correctly. They claimed they transported a 100 atoms of it.
Today, in a world first, a team of scientists from the BASE experiment at CERN successfully transported a trap filled with antiprotons in a truck across the Laboratory’s main site. The team managed to accumulate a cloud of 92 antiprotons in an innovative portable cryogenic Penning trap, then disconnect it from the experimental facility, load it onto a truck and continue experiment operation after transport. This is a remarkable achievement, given that antimatter is very difficult to preserve, as it annihilates upon contact with matter. This world premiere is a test, the ultimate aim being to transport antiprotons to other European laboratories, such as Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), where very-high-precision measurements of the antiproton properties could be performed.
Just a gram of the stuff is capable of destroying the entire planet if I remember correctly. They claimed they transported a 100 atoms of it.
Allow me to calm your nerves :-)
An 1g antimatter-explosion would be the equivalent of 3 Hiroshima bombs, or 1/10 of a Tsar Bomba. So not world-destroying.
They transported 92 protons. One proton has a mass of 1.6726 × 10⁻²⁷ kg, so to get 1g of them you'd need around 600.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 protons. They do make a lot of them, but at the current rate it would take 200 million years to make 1g.
Incidentally, the solution to symmetry breaking is that the antimatter is trapped in blackhole event horizons.
Today, in a world first, a team of scientists from the BASE experiment at CERN successfully transported a trap filled with antiprotons in a truck across the Laboratory’s main site. The team managed to accumulate a cloud of 92 antiprotons in an innovative portable cryogenic Penning trap, then disconnect it from the experimental facility, load it onto a truck and continue experiment operation after transport.
Lol, us old members talked about this extensively, for like decades. Theres a old conspiracy about a guy who was pretty sure he found part of it and wanted to blow his way into it, and was basically evicted by the government there before he could do anything.
On a random note....
Im surprised no ones talked about the cern antimatter transport truck.
Im fairly certain one of the old members linked a conspiracy video years ago, I cant remember really when (my phosphorous has been fucked lately i think), or what the video was even about it.
But it talked about this antimatter and how they were transporting it with a special truck, I think it may have been for the purpose of starship fuel.
My jaw dropped when I read that, whoever made that video had some kind of insider knowledge about this.
Just a gram of the stuff is capable of destroying the entire planet if I remember correctly. They claimed they transported a 100 atoms of it.
https://home.cern/news/press-release/experiments/base-experiment-cern-succeeds-transporting-antimatter
Allow me to calm your nerves :-)
An 1g antimatter-explosion would be the equivalent of 3 Hiroshima bombs, or 1/10 of a Tsar Bomba. So not world-destroying.
They transported 92 protons. One proton has a mass of 1.6726 × 10⁻²⁷ kg, so to get 1g of them you'd need around 600.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 protons. They do make a lot of them, but at the current rate it would take 200 million years to make 1g.
Incidentally, the solution to symmetry breaking is that the antimatter is trapped in blackhole event horizons.
Who you gonna call?
Ghostbusters!