Only 92 antiprotons but still an exciting feat
YMMV. I heard that they weren't able to count them correctly. And they might not even be there.
Antimatter has been transported for the first time
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#212pssh, antineutrinos are transported all the time!
Go away. We have (counting on fingers) ... enough money.
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
The charges are inverted, so anti-protons are actively attracted to protons. It would immediately explode.
Even without charge attraction, say anti-neutrons (I don’t know the term) would instantly resolve because neutrons are everywhere.
Free neutorns are everywhere? Why? I think they live only about 10 minutes outside of nuclei.
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
AI slop account
It is. The new meta is posting LLM comments, but then if called out post a human response. So it appears as if you were just mistaken, and this was always a human posting. People should read the comment history more critically.
I am definitely not an AI. I would probably be flattered if I wasn't so offended
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#215From a layman's point of view antimatter seems like an ideal spacecraft fuel. It's as energy dense as E = mc^2 allows, and if you have infrastructure to make it, the only input you need to produce it is electricity. Being able to transport it seems like an important piece of that puzzle. Production and storage would need to be scaled by many orders of magnitude, but that's merely an engineering problem...right?
To propel things in space you don't need as much energy as you need momentum. With antimatter you just have momentum of the photons that were produced in the annihilation. I don't know if that's the best way of getting momentum. Might be.
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#216The comic Yoko Tsuno: The time spiral from 1981 (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Spirale_du_temps) is about a time traveler, who arrives from the future to prevent the creation/invention of antimatter. This is important, because in a future world war an antimatter bomb destroyed the earth.
The fact that no time traveler is mentioned in the article is probably a good sign for our future.
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#217Sounds like the start of research ending in antimatter bombs.
The comic Yoko Tsuno: The time spiral from 1981 (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Spirale_du_temps) is about a time traveler, who arrives from the future to prevent the creation/invention of antimatter. This is important, because in a future world war an antimatter bomb destroyed the earth.
The fact that no time traveler is mentioned in the article is probably a good sign for our future.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even without charge attraction, say anti-neutrons (I don’t know the term) would instantly resolve because neutrons are everywhere.
Free neutorns are everywhere? Why? I think they live only about 10 minutes outside of nuclei.
Still, I don’t think they need to be free. The antimatter will just react with the ones in the nuclei. I don’t know much about any of this but it seems likely.
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
AI slop account
It is. The new meta is posting LLM comments, but then if called out post a human response. So it appears as if you were just mistaken, and this was always a human posting. People should read the comment history more critically.
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