In its second antimatter breakthrough this month, CERN announced it successfully created the first-ever antimatter qubit, paving the way to even weirder quantum experiments.
Thanks for the analogy, that really helps to put it in perspective. I was trying to work out the number of molecules per metre that would leave you with, but either my sense of scales is off kilter or I’ve got it wrong.
From what I can find, there are approximately 2.5e25 molecules per m3 at 1atm. Given an 11km cube has a volume of 1.3e12 m3, that gives around 2e13 molecules per m3 per m3 released. That sounds high, have I got the figures wrong somewhere?
Your numbers seem reasonable — more intuitive for me to work in terms of pressure. Atmosphere is (roughly) 1e3 Torr, good UHV can be around 1e-10, so that’s 13 orders of magnitude, which is (roughly) the same difference that you calculated.
Thanks for the analogy, that really helps to put it in perspective. I was trying to work out the number of molecules per metre that would leave you with, but either my sense of scales is off kilter or I’ve got it wrong.
From what I can find, there are approximately 2.5e25 molecules per m3 at 1atm. Given an 11km cube has a volume of 1.3e12 m3, that gives around 2e13 molecules per m3 per m3 released. That sounds high, have I got the figures wrong somewhere?
Your numbers seem reasonable — more intuitive for me to work in terms of pressure. Atmosphere is (roughly) 1e3 Torr, good UHV can be around 1e-10, so that’s 13 orders of magnitude, which is (roughly) the same difference that you calculated.