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Posted by leephillips 5 hours ago

Antimatter has been transported for the first time(www.nature.com)
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brendanfinan 4 hours ago|
https://home.web.cern.ch/order
MinimalAction 1 hour ago|
What's this link supposed to be? Returns 404 now.
brendanfinan 37 minutes ago||
Online store for CERN-brand antimatter
eternauta3k 4 hours ago||
What would a universe with equal amounts of matter and antimatter look like?
a-priori 4 hours ago||
It would develop into "regions" of space that are entirely matter and others that are entirely antimatter. The boundaries between them would glow as stray particles drift between the regions and are annihilated by contact with the opposing particles.

The fact that we don't see these glowing boundaries in space is evidence that there are not antimatter regions and that the visible universe is almost entirely composed of matter.

PowerElectronix 4 hours ago|||
It would depend on how it's distributed. If it's very homogeneous, totally anihilated. If there are galaxies of matter and galaxies of antimatter, more or less like us with a bit more background radiation.
isolli 4 hours ago||
How do we know there are no antimatter galaxies far away from us?
dodobirdlord 3 hours ago|||
Mass in the universe appears to be (very) roughly uniformly distributed, so even if there are large bodies of antimatter far away in the universe there would have to be a transition boundary somewhere between here and there where the universe goes from being mostly matter to being mostly antimatter. The universe is big and stuff would sometimes cross this boundary and get annihilated, and if this happened it would be the brightest thing in the sky, briefly outshining entire galaxies. We’ve been watching the sky for a while now and have never observed a bright visual event with the spectral signature of a matter/antimatter annihilation, so we assume there is not such a transition boundary, and by extension that the universe is made up of mostly matter out to the edge of the observable universe.
MengerSponge 3 hours ago||
Great explanation. One thing to add: annihilation happens with a very specific energy. Even if it was very far away and redshifted and dim, a "bubble" with a very uniform color (photon energy) would be plainly visible.
NitpickLawyer 2 hours ago|||
There's a great episode about this on History of the Universe yt channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJGaqe5t14g

It talks about symmetries, but has a nice story about this exact hypothetical scenario. (Someone else already replied why this probably isn't possible in our observable universe, but the episode is cool so I thought I'd share)

rbanffy 4 hours ago|||
Very, very bright.
drob518 4 hours ago||
Annihilated.
Sardtok 4 hours ago||
Sounds like the start of research ending in antimatter bombs.
NitpickLawyer 3 hours ago||
Unless we'd be fighting literal alines in space, and need a weapon for them, I think this would be many many many orders of magnitude too expensive / tricky for earth use. We have plenty of non sci-fi big boom sticks already as it is...
zahlman 2 hours ago|||
The energy used in creating and containing this antimatter was many orders of magnitude greater than it would release on collision with matter.
M95D 3 hours ago||
The most expensive bomb ever.
alansaber 5 hours ago||
Only 92 antiprotons but still an exciting feat
observationist 4 hours ago|
You (briefly) have an antiproton in your possession around once a day, assuming you get an average amount of sunlight. Some days, you might even have two!
cluckindan 4 hours ago||
This just in: seasonal affective disorder confirmed to be caused by antiproton deficiency
ck2 2 hours ago||
antimatter is not what the average person thinks it is from science-fiction

https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime/search?query=antimatte...

cozzyd 4 hours ago||
pssh, antineutrinos are transported all the time!
MengerSponge 3 hours ago|
That's a contentious statement! We're not sure if they are or aren't.

More accurately: we aren't sure if antineutrinos are the same or different from neutrinos!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02110

cozzyd 39 minutes ago||
well either way they're in opposite helicity states... but yes, Majorana neutrinos nothwithanding, there are plenty of transported positrons detected by e.g. PAMELA and plenty of antimuons that go long distances.
d--b 3 hours ago||
Every time I read one of these, I am amazed by how much stuff superconductivity allows, and how limited we are because it needs ultra low temperatures.
M95D 3 hours ago|
The disadvantages of water-based life.
fatbird 4 hours ago||
Imagine the poor post-doc in the back of the truck, no seatbelt, watching and noting anything going on, while the driver is doing donuts in a parking lot to really stress-test the magnetic containment.
chuckadams 5 hours ago|
Tell me this involved dilithium crystals. Please tell me this involved dilithium, I want to live in Gene's future.
rbanffy 4 hours ago||
No. That would have created a warp field around the container.
antonvs 1 hour ago|||
She canna take much more, cap'n
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