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Please drive carefully: scientists plan to transport volatile antimatter for first time
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2026
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Perfect time in history to just start transporting antimatter.
its not like star trek, where they produces kgs at a time, which is nuclear level events if they "collide"
For reference, a single kilogram of antimatter reacting with regular matter would create an explosion only slightly smaller than the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested, and well over a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
The device on Cern’s truck will carry about 1,000 antimatter particles, weighing about a billionth of a trillionth of a gram. Should the containment fail, and the antimatter make contact with normal matter, the resulting pulse of energy would be so feeble, the load doesn’t even warrant a radioactive label.
They just need to transfer power from the car's inertial dampers to the containment field
You mean the shocks?
those constrictors keep freezing on our starships, causing an overload.
Still though, we need a new HAZMAT category now.