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I was just about to post this! Now I really want to know if Data's neural network was banana powered.
This is cool. It’s very small amounts.
The key issue is that they are making antimatter at CERN but the magnetic fields at CERN impede studying/analysing it.
Checking in with a nearby physicist, the amount is so small that even in the worse case it wound unlikely to set off a radiation detector.
In return for this sagesse, I was subjected to several witticisms on the detectable rate of decay in the bananas we have awaiting to be turned into banana bread.
I love that "banana for scale" is also applicable to radioactivity.
They're making such progress! It wasn't that long ago that storing antimatter for a few minutes was a big achievement, let alone transporting it