On a cursory analysis of the article I came across the following line: "Usually the antimatter lifetime is limited by imperfections in the traps – little instabilities allow the antimatter to leak through.But by using a combination of two traps, the BASE team made the most perfect antimatter chamber ever – holding the antiprotons for 405 days. "
This is why this type of work is useful to society right now: in order to answer the fundamental questions of the Universe, with precision, it develops new technologies that can be applied to a number of other fields.
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On a cursory analysis of the article I came across the following line: "Usually the antimatter lifetime is limited by imperfections in the traps – little instabilities allow the antimatter to leak through.But by using a combination of two traps, the BASE team made the most perfect antimatter chamber ever – holding the antiprotons for 405 days. " This is why this type of work is useful to society right now: in order to answer the fundamental questions of the Universe, with precision, it develops new technologies that can be applied to a number of other fields.