[QUOTE=Rubs10;21370752]Look at it from this way,
Matter explodes when it comes into contact with anti-matter.
They both explode.
From what it sounds like, this is a correct statement, is it not OP?[/QUOTE]
If this is true then we would have to use anti-matter to contain it as well?
[QUOTE=Rubs10;21370752]Look at it from this way,
Matter explodes when it comes into contact with anti-matter.
They both explode.
From what it sounds like, this is a correct statement, is it not OP?[/QUOTE]
They both explode, yes.
I don't understand how antimatter solar systems and such can exist. How did they form in the first place among normal matter?
Also how does anti matter react to light (photons)?
I didn't contradict myself. I simply stated that all matter and antimatter were present in the big bang. Simply because that's what every theory about the big bang states. Matter isn't "created" as such - so it must have existed before the big bang, which led me to believe the big bang was an explosion between massive amounts of matter and antimatter (IE all of it)
Though, all this is well beyond anything I understand.
[b]Edit:[/b] and matter not being created brings me to another mindfuck: Where did it come from?
[QUOTE=archangel125;21370765]Here's the mindfuck. How do we know that we're not antimatter, and that the antimatter isn't truly matter?[/QUOTE]
It doesn't matter all that much. That's like saying "what if positive charges were negative and vice versa"
All we do is define it.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;21370833]I don't understand how antimatter solar systems and such can exist. How did they form in the first place among normal matter?
Also how does anti matter react to light (photons)?[/QUOTE]
I think photons are 'stable', i.e, they don't destroy matter or antimatter.
Otherwise most of our antimatter would have been destroyed in an instant :frown:
[QUOTE=DiscoPony;21370779]It's not really a mindfuck. It's all in the eye of the beholder, so to speak. And since (I believe) it is impossible for life to be composed of antimatter (because of the way antimatter interacts with other antimatter) then there's nobody to contradict us :v:[/QUOTE]
How exactly does antimatter act differently with itself?
how can antimatter have a mass
So there could be alien races made out of anti-matter that we could use to fuel our spaceships with.
There needs to be a sci-fi book written on that.
[QUOTE=evilking1;21370935]how can antimatter have a mass[/QUOTE]
It's not some magical energy thing, it's just, well, matter.
But with a different charge/quantum stuffs.
[QUOTE=evilking1;21370935]how can antimatter have a mass[/QUOTE]
Only the charges are changed. It still has mass.
[QUOTE=evilking1;21370935]how can anti[B]matter[/B] have a mass[/QUOTE]
All matter has mass.
[QUOTE=Rubs10;21370992]All matter has mass.[/QUOTE]
but what if it has anti-mass
[QUOTE=|FlapJack|;21370848]I didn't contradict myself. I simply stated that all matter and antimatter were present in the big bang. Simply because that's what every theory about the big bang states. Matter isn't "created" as such - so it must have existed before the big bang, which led me to believe the big bang was an explosion between massive amounts of matter and antimatter (IE all of it)
Though, all this is well beyond anything I understand.
[b]Edit:[/b] and matter not being created brings me to another mindfuck: Where did it come from?[/QUOTE]
Actually, matter and energy can be created spontaneously.
Like OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE :aaa:
It's called the quantum vacuum: Every once in a while (A 'while' being 1 gogol years. Gogol is 1 followed by a thousand zeroes) a proton pops up.
After an unimaginable amount of time... You pop up again, and the solar system, or even an entire universe :buddy:
Isn't that shit just fucking cash?
[QUOTE=Rubs10;21370949]So there could be alien races made out of anti-matter that we could use to fuel our spaceships with.
There needs to be a sci-fi book written on that.[/QUOTE]
No the universe is made up of matter not anti matter.
[QUOTE=evilking1;21371006]but what if it has anti-mass[/QUOTE]
That's negative energy and negative matter, those are still theoretical.
[QUOTE=|FlapJack|;21370848]I didn't contradict myself. I simply stated that all matter and antimatter were present in the big bang. Simply because that's what every theory about the big bang states. Matter isn't "created" as such - so it must have existed before the big bang, which led me to believe the big bang was an explosion between massive amounts of matter and antimatter (IE all of it)
Though, all this is well beyond anything I understand.
[b]Edit:[/b] and matter not being created brings me to another mindfuck: Where did it come from?[/QUOTE]
The M-Theory (which is sort of related to string theory) says that our universe is encased in a sort of membrane (or something along those lines). It also says that there may be an infinite amount of membranes/universes and that when two membranes collide they create massive amounts of energy as well as a new membrane. This somehow also creates all the matter in the newly created universe.
I don't completely understand it, so I probably didn't describe it very well.
[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;21371060]No the universe is made up of matter not anti matter.[/QUOTE]
Hasn't it already been stated like elevenety times that there could be planets and such made of anti-matter?
It seems people have the wrong idea about anti-matter. It's [I]exactly[/I] like matter. But our matter just has opposite charges that explode when they come into contact with anti-matter.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;21371043]Actually, matter and energy can be created spontaneously.
Like OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE :aaa:
It's called the quantum vacuum: Every once in a while (A 'while' being 1 gogol years. Gogol is 1 followed by a thousand zeroes) a proton pops up.
After an unimaginable amount of time... You pop up again, and the solar system, or even an entire universe :buddy:
Isn't that shit just fucking cash?[/QUOTE]
The digits of Pi contain your phone number (and all your friends' phone numbers) somewhere.
Statistics is pretty cool.
[QUOTE=archangel125;21370765]Here's the mindfuck. How do we know that we're not antimatter, and that the antimatter isn't truly matter?[/QUOTE]
Just call them matter A and matter 1.
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[QUOTE=Eudoxia;21371043]It's called the quantum vacuum: Every once in a while (A 'while' being 1 gogol years. Gogol is 1 followed by a thousand zeroes) a proton pops up.[/QUOTE]
Umm, what? The universe itself isn't even remotely that old.
[QUOTE=Robber;21371129]Just call them matter A and matter 1.
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Umm, what? The universe itself isn't even remotely that old.[/QUOTE]
The universe isn't, who says there wasn't any matter/antimatter before the big bang?
[QUOTE=Robber;21371129]Umm, what? The universe itself isn't even remotely that old.[/QUOTE]
It's just a concept.
[QUOTE=BaconDioxide;21370933]How exactly does antimatter act differently with itself?[/QUOTE]
I'm probably wrong about that. But I remember reading somewhere antimatter repels other antimatter. It might have actually said that anti[I]protons[/I] repel other antiprotons, in which case it acts exactly the same as normal matter. So nevermind about what I said in that other post :v:
[QUOTE=|FlapJack|;21371220]The universe isn't, who says there wasn't any matter/antimatter before the big bang?[/QUOTE]
Just sooo many question that I wish I could know the answer to. :allears:
[QUOTE=Rubs10;21371087]Hasn't it already been stated like elevenety times that there could be planets and such made of anti-matter?[/QUOTE]
There could be but they wouldn't last long.
Any matter that meets it's opposite instantly turns into a massive amount of energy, with the greater leaving it's leftovers.
[QUOTE=DiscoPony;21371250]I'm probably wrong about that. But I remember reading somewhere antimatter repels other antimatter. It might have actually said that anti[I]protons[/I] repel other antiprotons, in which case it acts exactly the same as normal matter. So nevermind about what I said in that other post :v:[/QUOTE]
Alright, cheers. :D
[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;21371355]There could be but they wouldn't last long.
Any matter that meets it's opposite instantly turns into a massive amount of energy, with the greater leaving it's leftovers.[/QUOTE]
That antimatter could be so far away it's not near any matter. Since if equal amounts of matter and antimatter were produced, as long as we exist, there is antimatter somewhere.
[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;21371355]There could be but they wouldn't last long.
Any matter that meets it's opposite instantly turns into a massive amount of energy, with the greater leaving it's leftovers.[/QUOTE]
But what if the surrounding asteroids are made out of antimatter? An antimatter solar system would last for as long as the star lasts. Then it blows up and you get a shower of Anti-Helium hitting and devastating all the planets in a 60 light year radius around the star.
If they've not been mentioned already, there are these funky particles called mesons, that consist of a quark and an antiquark.
Matter and antimatter in the same particle.
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