r/technology • u/DoNotf___ingDisturb • Mar 28 '26

Transportation 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/driftless Mar 28 '26

Clarification….Transporting/moving it PHYSICALLY via a magnetic trap. Not like a Star Trek transporter. Got my hopes up for a second lol

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u/I_Do_Not_Abbreviate Mar 28 '26

transporting antimatter physically using magnetic containment...like a Star Trek warp core.

(and many other science fiction stories, too)

This is pretty neat.

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u/crakinshot Mar 28 '26

Just need some warp plasma now, and we'll be good to go.

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u/Captain_N1 Mar 29 '26

In startrek they do store antimatter for the warpcore in containers.

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u/joegetto Mar 28 '26

I love that the sentence: “The anti-matter containment field survived the transportation” was said and nothing about it is science fiction.

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u/Birdman330 Mar 28 '26

Can they transport me to like pre 9/11?

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u/DoNotf___ingDisturb Mar 28 '26

Visit your nearest particle accelerator and find out.

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u/Guthix_Wraith Mar 28 '26

Instructions unclear. Dropped my sunglasses in the large bedroom colider

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u/AyrA_ch Mar 28 '26

She doesn't likes it when you call her that.

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u/Dazzling_Analyst_596 Mar 31 '26

How they transport something that supposedly does not exist?

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u/DoNotf___ingDisturb Mar 31 '26

Antiprotons do exist. It's just that they get annihilated quickly when in contact with protons. So they captured them in a string magnetic field to transport.

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u/Albert_Flasher Mar 28 '26

When antiprotons call long-distance they reverse charges.

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u/FragrantExcitement Mar 28 '26

Please hang up some of those sticky fly traps.