A Nobel prize is due to the first person that proves whether exporting antimatter results in negative import duties or not.
An igNobel, for sure
CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe
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#102A Nobel prize is due to the first person that proves whether exporting antimatter results in negative import duties or not.
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#103Isn’t it dangerous to transport antimatter in a truck? What would happen if it got into a bad accident?
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#104Reading this makes me so happy! Even if it by itself might not be the biggest science news, we know about antimatter for a long time and we are still talking about a few atoms only, but the news that people are actually handling antimatter to the point of transporting it with a truck, just feels a bit like sci-fi actually happening.
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#105Isn’t it dangerous to transport antimatter in a truck? What would happen if it got into a bad accident?
A few stray gamma rays - the quantities we can make at the moment are vanishingly small compared to macroscopic objects.
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#106> There's a facility being built in Düsseldorf, Germany ... [and shipping] appears we are just a liquid helium supply away from getting it to work That "just" is not just a "just"! As far as I understand, given the low reserves of helium we have, using a largish quantity for an experiment must be a political decision as much as it has to be a technical one.
We vent the vast majority of helium by not separating it from natural gas, I still think the "shortage" of helium is still way overblown. We shouldn't be wasting it, but I don't believe the doom and gloom about helium. Basically every gas well has helium, and we aren't going to run out of gas wells anytime soon, it just costs a little more to extract because its a little bit lower percentage than the ideal wells.
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#107Antimatter is an ultimate explosive. I wonder when we will have bullets with antimatter.
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#108Antimatter is an ultimate explosive. I wonder when we will have bullets with antimatter.
But it isn't. The reaction results in lots of energy but not much of an actual explosion, an explosion being an expansion of gas necessary to propel a bullet. Most of the energy would pass through/into the surrounding matter unconfined. Any gun would get hot and probably melt before the bullet started moving.
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#109> There's a facility being built in Düsseldorf, Germany ... [and shipping] appears we are just a liquid helium supply away from getting it to work That "just" is not just a "just"! As far as I understand, given the low reserves of helium we have, using a largish quantity for an experiment must be a political decision as much as it has to be a technical one.
We vent the vast majority of helium by not separating it from natural gas, I still think the "shortage" of helium is still way overblown. We shouldn't be wasting it, but I don't believe the doom and gloom about helium. Basically every gas well has helium, and we aren't going to run out of gas wells anytime soon, it just costs a little more to extract because its a little bit lower percentage than the ideal wells.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Clearly it would result in tariffs paid in anti-money…
Just like matter and antimatter, money and anti-money (debt) are created and destroyed together, and cancel each other out. When they come in contact, both are deleted. All money creation, pretty much, is accompanied with creating a corresponding debt. Bankruptcy sometimes deletes anti-money but the 'money' stays. I'm not sure what role interest payments have (I think that's a case of transferring money around). The…
However, there debt that keeps in taking. Such ist the case when in debt with a criminal Organisation. In which case current models are still lacking good explanations.