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Hmmm how does one store neutrons? Because I highly doubt the bottle... It seems that in the crucial part the article makes gross oversimplification. I would im

• neutronium 7y ago
  With a gravity well, to be sure. We can reflect and collimate beams, but I don’t think there’s much success capturing sizable volumes of free neutron particles in a chamber. We know that we can collect neutrons into a degenerate gas. But it probably all tends to sink toward the center of the earth, like subatomic bouncy balls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutronium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutronium It’s still theoretical though. We haven’t bottled it for sale yet. It would probably have lots of interesting applications, not the least of which would include weaponization.
• ben_w 7y ago
  It’s probably a magnetic bottle. Despite not having any net electric charge, neutrons have a magnetic moment. Not being a physicist I have no idea how to calculate their behaviour in a magnetic field, but I am aware they respond to one.
• dzmien 7y ago
  With very cold temperatures and magnets. The article had a link to a much better article in Science Mag [1] with more information about how neutrons are trapped. [1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6389/627 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6389/627