Shipping Antimatter by Truck to Understand the Universe
By Jesse Orrall
Published on April 19, 2026.
A truck transporting 92 antiprotons, the world's most expensive material, made a historic journey around CERN's facility on the France-Switzerland border transporting the antimatter for the first time. The antimatter particles are decelerated and captured for storage, shipment, and study. This discovery could help discover why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe, a question that has roots back to the big bang. Stefan Ulmer, founder and spokesperson of the BASE experiment at CERN, believes precise measurements could help find discrepancies between the two types of antimatter. The same enormous magnets that produce antimatter also make it difficult to study due to magnetic interference.
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