{"id":234027,"date":"2026-03-25T03:24:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/cern-hails-delicate-test-on-transporting-antimatter-as-a-scientific-success"},"modified":"2026-03-25T03:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:24:47","slug":"cern-hails-delicate-test-on-transporting-antimatter-as-a-scientific-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/cern-hails-delicate-test-on-transporting-antimatter-as-a-scientific-success","title":{"rendered":"CERN hails delicate test on transporting antimatter as a scientific success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cern-hails-delicate-test-on-transporting-antimatter-as-a-scientific-success.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Geneva took some antiprotons out for a spin\u2014a very delicate one\u2014in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive that has been deemed a success.<\/p>\n<p>If this so-called antimatter had come into contact with actual matter, even for a fraction of an instant, it would have been annihilated in a quick flash of energy. So experts at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, had to be extra careful when they took 92 antiprotons on the road for a short ride on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The antiprotons were suspended in a vacuum inside a specially designed box and held in place by supercooled magnets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Geneva took some antiprotons out for a spin\u2014a very delicate one\u2014in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive that has been deemed a success. If this so-called antimatter had come into contact with actual matter, even for a fraction of an instant, it would have been annihilated in a quick flash of energy. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}