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CERN Antimatter Experiment Produces First Beam of Antihydrogen
An anonymous reader writes "Matter and antimatter annihilate immediately when they meet, so aside from creating antihydrogen, one of the key challenges for physicists is to keep antiatoms away from ordinary matter. To do so, experiments take advantage of antihydrogen's magnetic properties (which are similar to hydrogen's) and use very strong non-uniform magnetic fields to trap antiatoms long enough to study them. However, the strong magnetic field gradients degrade the spectroscopic properties of the (anti)atoms. To allow for clean high-resolution spectroscopy, the ASACUSA collaboration developed an innovative set-up to transfer antihydrogen atoms to a region where they can be studied in flight, far from the strong magnetic field (scientific paper)."
That is only one ionization away from something potentially very dangerous.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
This may be a case where the experts are too close to the problem to see the simple solution.
Put the antihydrogen in a container made of antimatter, then annihilation will not be an issue.
Perhaps some sort of rigid anti-dirigible
Stuff that anti-matters.
There are no known reports of fatalities due to it, and there are no regulations against its use, so I conclude it must be perfectly safe!
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
So, basically, if an enemy got hold of this, it wouldn't matter? ;)
I'm a proton, and it blew my electrons clean off, you insensitive clod! I had to move in with relatives to remain stable.
Table-ized A.I.