CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe

Post by amenghra » Thu, May 22, 2025, 8:28 PM UTC

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If you want to visit Atlas (control room) or CERN’s first accelerator (a synchrocyclotron) just show up in the morning when the visitor center opens. The tour guides are often passionate scientists. The museum is worth visiting, you’ll get to see the first www server (Tim-Berner Lee’s nextcube). The live shows are well put together. And everything is pretty much free of charge. The only thing I can think of that has…

That is great news. The last time I checked, there was a long waitlist and needed to book online (maybe COVID-related?). Appreciate you sharing this story.

Post by pezezin » Thu, May 22, 2025, 10:33 PM UTC

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I work for the control group at another accelerator, so we were visiting and meeting their control guys. Super friendly people all of them, they treated us like kings... and their control centre is bigger than our whole facility xD

So they allowed you to know that you are in the control group? Doesn't that introduce bias ;)

Post by to11mtm » Thu, May 22, 2025, 10:58 PM UTC

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The bullet should consist of several parts. Maybe it's more rocket than a bullet. 1. Part that makes it move from the gun to the target. May be ordinary powder or reactive engine. 2. Part that creates an energy when bullet hits the target. That's where antimatter would be useful. 3. Part that converts energy to damage. For example compressed gas which gets very hot, expands and pushes shrapnel to hit things around wi…

That would be a "shell" or warhead rather than a bullet. Bullets are generally inert bits of metal propelled from a barrel. Shells are are filled with explosives to detonate at some point once far away from the launching barrel.

Post by gus_massa » Fri, May 23, 2025, 12:12 AM UTC

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It's just too expensive. I think a quadrillion per gram. You can bribe the whole population with a million dollars or if you prefer a more classic method just give the enemy president a trillion dollars.

You wouldn't need anything near a gram. It isn't used for its explosive power but to create particles to increase the efficiency of the surrounding nuclear reaction, not actually contribute any explosive force on its own.

Post by pezezin » Fri, May 23, 2025, 1:23 AM UTC

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Last week I had the chance to visit CERN's Antimatter Factory, and let me tell you I was feeling like a child on Christmas Day. The ridiculously advanced technology required to produce only a few picograms of antimatter is truly impressive. That they are considering sending it hundreds of km away is mind blowing.

I designed some of the kit in that building! (Specifically for the alpha G experiment) Super proud of it.