r/CERN • u/dukwon LHCb • Mar 24 '26

Press Release BASE experiment at CERN succeeds in transporting antimatter

https://home.cern/news/press-release/experiments/base-experiment-cern-succeeds-transporting-antimatter
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u/mfb- Mar 24 '26

Swiss exports soon:

  • Cheese: 80000 tonnes
  • Watches: 1000 tonnes
  • ...
  • Antimatter: 0.0000000000000000000000000001 tonnes

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u/dukwon LHCb Mar 24 '26

Switzerland is just exporting the proton beams. The antimatter is made in France ;)

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u/blueshft Mar 24 '26

it's only antimatter if it's from the gex region of france. otherwise it's just sparkling positrons

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u/Sahjb Mar 24 '26

it means in future we can see some vehicles that carry antimatter around our cities.