CERN Researchers Are Planning to Trap and Truck Antimatter From One Facility to Another
However, antimatter — the less-understood counterpart to the abundant matter that makes up you, me, and the universe — comes with a unique host of qualities, somewhat different from a baby’s: like its willingness to explode in response to any contact whatsoever with matter. You can’t simply put antimatter in a container and throw it in the back of a truck; in fact, any of those steps would spell disaster. Preparing the bottle that will transport antimatter. Image Credit: Julien Marius Ordan/CERN At CERN, scientists operate the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. This is why CERN has designated a special project for this exact task — the antiProton Unstable Matter Annihilation (PUMA) project.