{"id":234295,"date":"2026-03-31T02:18:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/in-world-first-antimatter-taken-on-test-drive-at-cern"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:18:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:18:51","slug":"in-world-first-antimatter-taken-on-test-drive-at-cern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/in-world-first-antimatter-taken-on-test-drive-at-cern","title":{"rendered":"In world first, antimatter taken on test drive at CERN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-world-first-antimatter-taken-on-test-drive-at-cern.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CERN scientists on Tuesday pulled off the unprecedented feat of transporting antiprotons by road, successfully test-driving the world\u2019s first antimatter delivery system, with an eye to one day supplying research labs across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe particles returned\u2026 so this was a success,\u201d CERN physicist Stefan Ulmer told reporters after the large truck came back from a 10-kilometer drive around the campus of Europe\u2019s main physics laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>While that might not sound like a big distance, Ulmer, a spokesman for CERN\u2019s BASE experiment probing the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the universe, said it marked the \u201cstarting point to a new era.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CERN scientists on Tuesday pulled off the unprecedented feat of transporting antiprotons by road, successfully test-driving the world\u2019s first antimatter delivery system, with an eye to one day supplying research labs across Europe. \u201cThe particles returned\u2026 so this was a success,\u201d CERN physicist Stefan Ulmer told reporters after the large truck came back from a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234295","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=234295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}