The most dangerous delivery truck? How a lorry-load of antimatter will help solve secrets of universe

Fantastically expensive and hard to handle, the substance holds the key to a holy grail of science. And experts at Cern now know how to transport it

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Bullshit dangerous. If something goes wrong, there's a few joules of Gamma radiation in the box and that's it.
- Yes, the headline sucks.
Not a bad article, but horrendously clickbaity headline.
- Seems they were using the premise of Angels and Demons to make it 'entertaining'.
I thought we were only able to produce antimatter in minuscule amounts. How the hell does anyone have a “truckload“ of it?
- it's cause you need an entire truck of scientific instruments to contain it.
  
  That’s what I figured, but that doesn’t really mean there’s a “a truckload” of antimatter, just in antimatter containment equipment. The actual amount of antimatter is probably very tiny.
- It is a load on a truck. Therefore, it is a truckload.
  
  Checks out
We believe the big bang produced the same amounts of matter and antimatter.

Count Basie’s Big Band? I knew they were good, but….
Jesus, that headline is fucking atrocious.
So, what anti-element is this anti matter? Anti-helium?
- To achieve this goal, Cern scientists have built transportable devices containing superconducting magnets, cryogenic cooling systems and vacuum chambers where antiprotons can be trapped, avoiding contact with normal matter, and carried on seven-tonne lorries.
  
  Antiprotons. So basically an anti-hydrogen ion.
It's like Tenet. I think we're in the front wards bit but it is hard to tell

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