That is an insane amount of energy for something so little
Comment on World first: antimatter particles transported in Geneva
aburrito@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
This is super cool. So it was anywhere from 100-1k anti protons transported 5 km, and my fave bit from the article >According to CERN, if the trap fails during transport, the energy released will be around one millionth of a joule – about as much as it takes to press a keyboard key.
Neat!
CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
aburrito@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Oh definitely. I’m not a physicist but I’m pretty sure the matter-anti matter reaction is like near perfect efficiency right? So all of those particles plus the non anti pairs converted virtually entirely to energy, that’s a lot
Question for any particle physicists if one stumbles on this thread, iirc most of the mass in hadrons is from the internal QCD interactions, so is that reaction’s energy also largely from the quark anti-quark interactions? If so I mean, trying to comprehend the quarks interacting between the particles in the reaction twists my brain somehow
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 days ago
which direction did they design it to fail tho
eleijeep@piefed.social 6 days ago
What type of key switch though?
aburrito@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Asking the important questions