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Physicists drove antimatter through traffic in a truck
Original: Why physicists drove a trap full of antimatter through traffic on a truck
CERN physicists transported a trap of antimatter particles by truck through public roads, moving them from the accelerator site to another laboratory. Antimatter annihilates on contact with ordinary matter, so the particles had to be suspended in magnetic and electric fields inside a portable trap during the journey. The unprecedented transfer aims to enable precision antimatter experiments at a facility not equipped to make the particles itself.
Why now: Reports of antimatter being transported through public traffic is an unusual scientific first that captures wide curiosity.
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- Why physicists drove a trap full of antimatter through traffic on a truck · Earth.com
- Why physicists drove a trap full of antimatter through traffic on a truck · AOL.com
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