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Please drive carefully: scientists plan to transport volatile antimatter for first time
(www.theguardian.com)
An article concerning cerns concern
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2026
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and here i was contemplating yesterday whether interstellar rockets will ever use antimatter drives and when the technology to store and transport antimatter will ever mature ...
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"
kgs
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
car's inertial dampers
You mean the shocks?
those constrictors keep freezing on our starships, causing an overload.
Still though, we need a new HAZMAT category now.
It's a little late to have Blast Corps ready to help out but it's never too late for a remake.
Time Travelers from the future might recruit an entire school bus's worth of geriatric retirees to prevent such a thing from exploding 🙂↕️
Great series. Glad it ended when it did.
I've seen Angels and Demons, I know where this is going.
OR the V series, when aliens built a "anti-particle particle annhilator as a power generator for humans, which was extremely volatile(because they were planning to blow it up using the same method with "grenade".
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