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Antimatter has been transported for the first time

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Re: Antimatter has been transported for the first time

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If containment was to fail, it the total energy released would have been approximately 2.766 * 10 ^ -8 J, so it wasn't particularly dangerous

What is that in firecrackers? Gemini says a firecracker releases 150 J, so yeah not a lot.

Wolfram Alpha says its approximately the kinetic energy of a mosquito in flight

Re: Antimatter has been transported for the first time

#7

If containment was to fail, it the total energy released would have been approximately 2.766 * 10 ^ -8 J, so it wasn't particularly dangerous

What is that in firecrackers? Gemini says a firecracker releases 150 J, so yeah not a lot.

It's a fraction of the energy released when an unlit fire cracker is dropped an inch. Basically unmeasurable

Re: Antimatter has been transported for the first time

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If containment was to fail, it the total energy released would have been approximately 2.766 * 10 ^ -8 J, so it wasn't particularly dangerous

It was on the radio here (I live on its route)- the ‚receiving’ physicist said it would be way less than what we catch anyway from daily cosmic radiation.
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