Re: CERN and thw anti-matter bomb?

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On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:42:33 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

>On 3/26/26 17:01, john larkin wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:32:04 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>wrote:
>>>>> On 3/26/26 10:48, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It was brought to my attention on TV by the German program Nano:
>>>>>    CERN transports anti-matter:
>>>>>     https://home.cern/news/press-release/experiments/base-experiment-cern-succeeds-transporting-antimatter
>>>>>
>>>>>    On the way to an anti-matter bomb?
>>>>> Mar-a-lago a first test ;-)?
>>>>>
>>>>> You Ash surrender now!
>>>>
>>>> I'm an occasional guide at the AD, taking people around the
>>>> installations to show them what is going on. Yes, CERN is
>>>> trucking antiprotons around, just testing the procedures
>>>> for the moment. The reason is that some measurements that
>>>> physicists want to perform are perturbed by the multitude
>>>> of stray magnetic fields in the AD experimental hall, so
>>>> we need to take the antiprotons to a magnetically quieter
>>>> spot to do a proper measurement.
>>>>
>>>> No, there isn't enough to blow anything up, not even close..
>>>
>>> Just wait and see when they realize the bomb's potential!
>>> They probably will build an anti matter plant, likely wind powered ;-)
>> 
>> The numbers don't work. If you want to make loud bangs, use the
>> electricity to separate hydrogen and oxygen and deonate that.
>> 
>> Converting electricity into antimatter is likely something like 1e-18
>> efficient.
>> 
>> 
>> John Larkin
>> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
>> Lunatic Fringe Electronics
>
>Hmmm, I never worked that out. Hold on...
>You're right it's crazily inefficient.
>
>We get about one antiproton for every million protons that
>hit the conversion target. I don't actually know the
>electrical power consumption of the Proton Synchrotron
>and the Antiproton Decelerator.
>
>The annihilation of an antiproton with a proton yields
>about 2 GeV.
>
>Jeroen Belleman
>

NIF is occasionally getting numbers like 2:1 fusion conversion
efficiency, light energy to thermal output. Wall-plug efficiency is
below 1%.

I wonder how tokamaks are doing these days.


John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics

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CERN and thw anti-matter bomb? Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-03-26 09:48 +0000
  Re: CERN and thw anti-matter bomb? Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2026-03-26 11:38 +0100
    Re: CERN and thw anti-matter bomb? john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-03-26 07:46 -0700
    Re: CERN and thw anti-matter bomb? Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-03-26 15:32 +0000
      Re: CERN and thw anti-matter bomb? john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-03-26 09:01 -0700
        Re: CERN and thw anti-matter bomb? Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2026-03-26 17:42 +0100
          Re: CERN and thw anti-matter bomb? john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-03-26 10:13 -0700
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          Re: CERN and thw anti-matter bomb? john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-03-27 04:13 -0700
    Re: CERN and thw anti-matter bomb? Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> - 2026-03-26 16:55 +0000
      Re: CERN and thw anti-matter bomb? Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2026-03-26 23:36 +0100
        Re: CERN and thw anti-matter bomb? Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> - 2026-03-27 20:29 +0000
          Re: CERN and thw anti-matter bomb? Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2026-03-27 22:19 +0100
            Re: CERN and thw anti-matter bomb? x <x@x.net> - 2026-03-28 06:28 -0700
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                Re: CERN and thw anti-matter bomb? x <x@x.net> - 2026-03-28 11:43 -0700
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                Re: CERN and thw anti-matter bomb? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-04-03 13:43 +0200
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