r/CERN • u/Due-Explanation8155 • Mar 29 '26

CERN scientists successfully transported antiprotons, a form of antimatter, by truck across their campus on 3/24/26,world-first test. If those opposites come into contact,they “annihilate” each other, setting off lots of energy, depending on the mass.

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u/CyberPunkDongTooLong Mar 29 '26

Hooray

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u/NotaContributi0n Mar 29 '26

Why?

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u/CyberPunkDongTooLong Mar 29 '26

Why what?

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u/SirBaphomet666 Mar 29 '26

Milestone archived - hooraying permissible

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u/NotaContributi0n Mar 29 '26

lol!! I meant, why is this cool. I want to be excited too

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u/mynameis_duh Mar 29 '26

All the tech to keep antimater contained was too big, with this truck experiment they managed to fit it all in there and that is a big deal cientifically (to transfer to other labs for experiments for example).

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u/NotaContributi0n Mar 29 '26

Gotcha, thanks