Cern | Pakistan

MEYRIN (Switzerland): CERN scientists on Tuesday pulled off the unprecedented feat of transporting antiprotons by road, successfully test-driving the world’s first antimatter delivery system, with an eye to one day supplying research labs across Europe. “The particles returned... so this was a success,” CERN physicist Stefan Ulmer told reporters after the large truck came back from a 10-kilometre drive around the campus of Europe’s main physics laboratory. While that might not sound like a big distance, Ulmer, a spokesman for CERN’s BASE experiment probing the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the universe, said it marked the “starting point to a new era”. Visible matter and its mysterious twin antimatter are believed to be almost identical, except their charges and magnetic properties are reversed. Scientists today still wonder why our universe contains far more matter than antimatter, when the Big Bang should have created an equal amount. When antimatter comes in contact with matter it annihilates,...