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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:27:31 PM EDT
 Inside CERN’s ‘antimatter factory’ creating antihydrogen - BBC News |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:28:08 PM EDT
[#1]
Antimatter? meh, what could possibly go wrong?
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:29:46 PM EDT
[#2]
Do you want Nephilim!!!? Because THIS is how you get Nephilim!!
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:29:52 PM EDT
[#3]
Is it putting megawatts to the grid?
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:30:18 PM EDT
[#4]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Antimatter? meh, what could possibly go wrong? That was my reaction |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:32:06 PM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Is it putting megawatts to the grid? It's taking them from the grid, at least for now. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:32:09 PM EDT
[#6]
Piffle. I made several orders of magnitude more antiprotons than CERN ever will make of anti-hydrogen. Several world records, actually.
If you took all the antimatter I made and blew it up you'd get on the order of a stick or three of dynamite's worth of kaboom. 100% nothingburger. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:32:28 PM EDT
[#7]
They should run the machine at 150% duty cycle. When headcrabs materialize out of the walls, and a small portion of the facility vaporizes, scale it down 25%. Not going to see antimatter 9mm in my lifetime by being a pussy behind the controls.
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:32:34 PM EDT
[#8]
The sooner we extinct ourselves, the better for all of us. Humans are a failed extra terrestrial experiment and every person brought into this existence is pays for it.
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:33:55 PM EDT
[#9]
Do you really want to shit your pants?
Lightning produces antimatter too. And peeling off a length of scotch tape? X-rays. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:39:11 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Antimatter? meh, what could possibly go wrong? Well, just a rough guess, but if they were making a ton of the stuff it could potentially end modern civilization. If they were making a kilogram of the stuff it could end a large city. If they were making a gram of the stuff it could take out CERN and leave a big crater. If they were making a milligram of the stuff it could do a lot of damage to CERN and kill some scientists. If they were making a microgram of the stuff it could maybe kill everyone in a room. How much are they making? |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:42:45 PM EDT
[#11]
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:43:27 PM EDT
[#12]
We all gotta die of something.
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:45:01 PM EDT
[#13]
You have been watching too much Star Trek. We haven’t made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:45:26 PM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You have been watching too much Star Trek. We haven’t made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. Quote HistoryQuoted: You have been watching too much Star Trek. We haven’t made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. Yet* |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:45:42 PM EDT
[#15]
How much are they making?
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:46:39 PM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You have been watching too much Star Trek. We haven’t made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. Quote HistoryQuoted: You have been watching too much Star Trek. We haven’t made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. Or power a starship to the moon. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:48:22 PM EDT
[#17]
 Death by snu snu! |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:49:00 PM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Is it putting megawatts to the grid? Just wait 'til it puts antigrids to the grid. What's the mass of a transformer? What's the speed of light? What's the speed of light times itself?
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:52:46 PM EDT
[#19]
I still don’t get the creepy dance, but why the transvestites?
 Attached FileAre the dancers playing dead or is this symbolic of what will happen to the unsaved.  Attached File |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:53:35 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: How much are they making? Alpha (one of the CERN experiments) is capturing on the order of 50~100 at a time. When F-rmilab was at peak antimatter production, it was making about 25x1010 (25E10) antiprotons/hour, 24/7/365. The largest quantity of antiprotons F-rmilab stored was something like ~450E10. It took 6 particle accelerators to make and store the antiprotons, and a 7th (T-vatron) to use them. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:54:23 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You have been watching too much Star Trek. We haven’t made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. Quote HistoryQuoted: You have been watching too much Star Trek. We haven’t made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. I, personally, have made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:55:08 PM EDT
[#22]
In before CapnRob....
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:55:22 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I, personally, have made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: You have been watching too much Star Trek. We haven’t made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. I, personally, have made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. Sir, this is not a taco bell. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:56:59 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I, personally, have made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. And probably #metoo since anti-shit happens in my reactors. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:58:56 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: In before CapnRob.... I want to know if LowBeta is Mr.Higgs after a name change. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:59:14 PM EDT
[#26]
CERN is the research wing of the Committee of 300, and their goal is to create a reliable means of time travel, with which to establish full global control.
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Posted: 8/8/2023 6:59:52 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Do you really want to shit your pants? Lightning produces antimatter too. And peeling off a length of scotch tape? X-rays. So, duct tape isn’t is cool? With a large enough roll of Scotch tape….could I go all Bond supervillian and…..rule the world? 
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:00:54 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I want to know if LowBeta is Mr.Higgs after a name change. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: In before CapnRob.... I want to know if LowBeta is Mr.Higgs after a name change. No Absolutely Not. no. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:01:44 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I want to know if LowBeta is Mr.Higgs after a name change. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: In before CapnRob.... I want to know if LowBeta is Mr.Higgs after a name change. I don't think Mr Higgs was ever in the .mil |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:03:38 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I, personally, have made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: You have been watching too much Star Trek. We haven’t made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. I, personally, have made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. Ok I'm interested, tell us what this is all about. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:04:49 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: CERN is the research wing of the Committee of 300, and their goal is to create a reliable means of time travel, with which to establish full global control. That's not even the kookiest conspiracy theory I've seen about CERN here. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:07:58 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't think Mr Higgs was ever in the .mil Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: In before CapnRob.... I want to know if LowBeta is Mr.Higgs after a name change. I don't think Mr Higgs was ever in the .mil Good point. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:09:32 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Ok I'm interested, tell us what this is all about. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: You have been watching too much Star Trek. We haven’t made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. I, personally, have made enough antimatter to blow up a small car. Ok I'm interested, tell us what this is all about. The T-vatron collided protons and antiprotons. So they had to make antiprotons. in the early 90s we made about 3E10/hour. With lots of work we got to 25E10/hr a year or two before they pulled the plug. We made a lot of antiprotons (called pbars because the symbol was a p with a little bar over it). Really hated to see them turn it off. 
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:11:05 PM EDT
[#34]
I've long held a theory as to why there are likely very few advanced civilizations in the universe.
The species that do make it over the bar of physics eventually build shit like super colliders. They eventually and accidentally create a black hole or a tear in space time and their solar system gets sucked in. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:13:38 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I've long held a theory as to why there are likely very few advanced civilizations in the universe. The species that do make it over the bar of physics eventually build shit like super colliders. They eventually and accidentally create a black hole or a tear in space time and their solar system gets sucked in. But we'll get it right this time. Fermi be damn'd just like the torpedoes. Eta the:
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:14:47 PM EDT
[#36]
Let's not let any interdimensional beings into our dimension please
Eta *any more |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:14:53 PM EDT
[#37]
How do you contain anitmater?
And how is it used? |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:18:38 PM EDT
[#38]
If they blow Europe up, at least then we only have to worry about China
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:20:05 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Antimatter? meh, what could possibly go wrong? Big BADA BOOM! |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:24:04 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: How do you contain anitmater? And how is it used? Great Question! |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:26:30 PM EDT
[#41]
Antimatter is an energy storage mechanism, not an energy source. Energy in = energy out, roughly. If you want to make enough antimatter to equal a nuclear bomb, then you need to start with a nuclear bomb's amount of energy as input to the antimatter factory.
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:31:03 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: How do you contain anitmater? And how is it used? You contain antimatter by keeping in very high vacuum and magnetically controlling its position. F-rmi used a ring about a km in diameter.  The only thing they're good for is to kaboom them and measure what kind of other particles fall out. They really do annihilate when they contact any normal matter. Star Trek got that right. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:34:07 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Antimatter is an energy storage mechanism, not an energy source. Energy in = energy out, roughly. If you want to make enough antimatter to equal a nuclear bomb, then you need to start with a nuclear bomb's amount of energy as input to the antimatter factory. it's much muuuuuch worse than that! I don't remember the actual numbers but numbers like million and billion pop up when you start talking about the process. Very very very hard to make antimatter. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:38:07 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That's not even the kookiest conspiracy theory I've seen about CERN here. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: CERN is the research wing of the Committee of 300, and their goal is to create a reliable means of time travel, with which to establish full global control. That's not even the kookiest conspiracy theory I've seen about CERN here. We were also told something similar. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:45:59 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Big BADA BOOM! Any chemical plant, fertilizer plant, or refinery probably stores far more energy at any given moment than the total stored energy of anti-matter we're talking about here. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 7:50:12 PM EDT
[#46]
Worry not guys. I am 3miles from ground zero. I have everything needed to deal with headcrabs
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Posted: 8/8/2023 8:03:06 PM EDT
[#47]
So if we've made a lot of it already, why don't we know the effect of gravity on it? (see video)
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Posted: 8/8/2023 8:05:18 PM EDT
[#48]
I'm glad they are on the other side of the world but will it matter when they set the atmosphere on fire?
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Posted: 8/8/2023 8:09:59 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: So if we've made a lot of it already, why don't we know the effect of gravity on it? (see video) In high energy physics mode, antiprotons are relativistic, traveling at .999+ the speed of light. 8 to 980 GeV. Not really set up to measure something like gravity. The CERN antimatter has been cooled down to .012 degrees above absolute zero and is held in position with a laser. |
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Posted: 8/8/2023 8:14:51 PM EDT
[#50]
Error. Human is dead. Mismatch.
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