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“CERN scientists on Tuesday pulled off the unprecedented feat of transporting
antiprotons by road, successfully test-driving the world's first antimatter
delivery system, with an eye to one day supplying research labs across Europe.
"The particles returned… so this was a success," CERN physicist Stefan Ulmer
told reporters after the large truck came back from a 10-kilometre drive around
the campus of Europe's main physics laboratory.
While that might not sound like a big distance, Ulmer, a spokesman for CERN's
BASE experiment probing the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the
universe, said it marked the "starting point to a new era".
Visible matter and its mysterious twin antimatter are believed to be almost
identical, except their charges and magnetic properties are reversed.
Scientists today still wonder why our universe contains far more matter than
antimatter, when the Big Bang should have created an equal amount.
When antimatter comes in contact with matter it annihilates, disappearing in a
flash of energetic particles.
Moving antimatter particles about is therefore a major challenge – one that has
now seemingly been overcome.”
Via Joyce Donahue.
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