[QUOTE=rathat48;21374004]Why aren't negative protons called Negatrons.[/QUOTE]
Because that sounds like something out of a bad sci-fi.
Actually, because proton doesn't come from "positive", it comes from the greek word "πρῶτον" (had to look that up) meaning "first".
[QUOTE=ffffff-;21370353]Like CERN will have a FOR RENT sign in the ground outside the lobby.
Also about the amat space travel part. I've heard stuff about using solar flares (or something produced by the sun at the very least) to sort of launch a spacecraft to the stars, riding it like a surfer on a wave.
Is that feasible or just wishful thinking?[/QUOTE]
Is that not from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy?
One downside though, If you or anything made of matter touches it....you will explode!
[QUOTE=Cogniscente;21373422]This is wrong- there's entire galaxies of antimatter.
[/QUOTE]
What? There is no evidence of this.
Could anti-mater be produced by matter being flipped along a fourth dimensional axis?
[QUOTE=TheBrokenHobo;21372674]What if one end of the universe was made of anti-matter and the other was just normal matter, and they are being pulled in towards each other untill they meet and we have an anti-big bang. One that destorys the universe instead of creating it? :ohdear:[/QUOTE]
According to current models and theories, an equal amount of anti-matter was supposedly created at the Big Bang. We know this isn't possible- all the matter and anti-matter would have collided and turned to energy, hence, no universe. So many think that a tiny bit extra matter was created; 50.001% matter and 49.999% antimatter. This would mean that you, me, and the rest of the universe is comprised of that .001%.
I'll save up 63.2 trillion dollars for a microgram of antimatter, inject it into a cow embryo, and bingo.
I'm the world's most powerful person.
I want eat some.
[editline]07:35PM[/editline]
[img]http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/9499/worthit.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=Smartguy5000;21372761][IMG]http://i40.tinypic.com/24csbys.jpg[/IMG] (Please excuse the crudity of the model, I didn't have time to build it to scale) If we were able to contain the antimatter as shown above, with the gray being a magnetic field, could the electrostatic attraction between the antimatter and matter; as well as the magnetic field pushing the antimatter back, in perfect balance, be used as a way of generating electricity, or even propulsion, just a vague notion, can't really express it.
[editline]05:31PM[/editline]
And it would be in the shape of a perfect cube.[/QUOTE]
The magnetivity requires energy input
law of conversation of energy etc
[QUOTE=Upgrade123;21376281]I'll save up 63.2 trillion dollars for a microgram of antimatter, inject it into a cow embryo, and bingo.
I'm the world's most powerful person.[/QUOTE]
More like the world's most exploded cow embryo.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;21370071]There are clouds of naturally-ocurring Anti-Hydrogen, antimatter asteroids and probably Antimatter stars and solar systems. But finding them is not going to happen any time soon.[/QUOTE]
Antimatter stars?? Antimatter Solar Systems?!?
:psyboom:
Is there such a thing as antienergy?
[editline]05:47PM[/editline]
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;21376352]More like the world's most exploded cow embryo.[/QUOTE]
Minor details.
[editline]05:48PM[/editline]
[QUOTE='[LOA] SonofBrim;21376502']Antimatter stars?? Antimatter Solar Systems?!?
:psyboom:[/QUOTE]
Antimatter dildos.
:aaaaa:
[QUOTE=Smartguy5000;21373176]When matter and antimatter come into contact with each other they cancel each other out, and since mass is constant in the universe, they are transformed into energy, the explosion is the release and transformation of matter into pure energy.[/QUOTE]
This might now make much sense but, would it be possible to contain the explosion? If it transforms into pure energy could you contain it and have..well..pure energy?
[QUOTE='[LOA] SonofBrim;21376502']Antimatter stars?? Antimatter Solar Systems?!?
:psyboom:[/QUOTE]
Again, they either don't exist, or they're so far away they exceed the veil of the observable universe. If there were any within the 46.5 billion light years, we most definitely would have seen the titanic explosions and gravitational shock waves by now.
[QUOTE=Smartguy5000;21372761]Please excuse the crudity of the model, I didn't have time to build it to scale[/QUOTE]
[img]http://metsxtra.mlblogs.com/dr-thumb-250x250.jpg[/img]
?
I wasn't aware that Wikipedia was edited by PhD's in astrophysics or that its information on beyond-scientifically cutting-edge projects was 100% accurate.
[QUOTE=Hesychasmos;21376992]I wasn't aware that Wikipedia was edited by PhD's in astrophysics or that its information on beyond-scientifically cutting-edge projects was 100% accurate.[/QUOTE]
It's actually edited by the cutting edge projects and it's 469% accurate.
[QUOTE=Hesychasmos;21376992]I wasn't aware that Wikipedia was edited by PhD's in astrophysics or that its information on beyond-scientifically cutting-edge projects was 100% accurate.[/QUOTE]
The science articles are usually pretty accurate.
[QUOTE=Lord Pirate;21372668]This thread lost credibility when I saw the words Angels and Demons and the mention of antimatter storage so I stopped reading.
You CANNOT store antimatter. Antimatter is uncharged and would be completely unaffected by magnetic fields. You also CANNOT store charged antiparticles like antiprotons in anything other than a cyclic particle accelerator.
Antimatter doesn't just float around in the ionosphere as well. Antiparticles may flit into being during a decay or interaction with solar winds but they quickly annihilate or decay. You can't just stick up a huge net and catch it.
Also if you are doing an informative thread please use some terminology. When matter meats antimatter, the subsequent interaction is called annihiliation.
Some of this thread is correct, some of it is wishful thinking and some of it is wrong. Antimatter is always astounding though and deserves discussion. What I find amazing is positronium, a combination of an electron and a positron trapped in orbit with one another. It's not matter, nor antimatter but rather a combination of both which is rather intriguing.[/QUOTE]
You can store e+s and p-s, they have a charge don't they? You can't store an antineutron however because it doesn't have a charge. They have infact stored it in magnetic cylinders.
OP, make a thread about dark matter
[QUOTE=DiscoPony;21370779]And since (I believe) it is impossible for life to be composed of antimatter (because of the way antimatter interacts with other antimatter)[/QUOTE]
wrong
[editline]12:15PM[/editline]
i want to build an antimatter house
[QUOTE=wonkadonk;21388104]wrong
[editline]12:15PM[/editline]
i want to build an antimatter house[/QUOTE]
I knew I should have edited the original post.
From page 2! Thanks for reading.
[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]
Wouldn't firing antimatter at things as a weapon fail, due to it instantly colliding with air particles and blowing up?
[QUOTE=Quidsy the Squidsy;21388424]Wouldn't firing antimatter at things as a weapon fail, due to it instantly colliding with air particles and blowing up?[/QUOTE]
Well, yeah, but it'd be more likely for it to come into contact with whatever was firing it first and annihilate anyway. Alternatively, fire it in a vacuum -- but then there's still the issue of actually, y'know, [i]firing[/i] it.
[QUOTE=CNiall;21388487]Well, yeah, but it'd be more likely for it to come into contact with whatever was firing it first and annihilate anyway. Alternatively, fire it in a vacuum -- but then there's still the issue of actually, y'know, [i]firing[/i] it.[/QUOTE]
A vacuum we make is never a perfect one, there's still molecules and atoms floating there which could still come into contact.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;21373209]1.8 x 1008 J: 1 microgram of antimatter + 1 microgram of matter = 43 kilograms TNT equivalent
1.8 x 1011 J: 1 milligram of antimatter + 1 milligram of matter = 43 tons TNT equivalent
1.8 x 1014 J: 1 gram of antimatter + 1 gram of matter = 43 kilotons
1.8 x 1017 J: 1 kilogram of antimatter + 1 kilogram of matter = 43 megatons
1.8 x 1020 J: 1 metric ton of antimatter + 1 metric ton of matter = 43 gigatons[/QUOTE]
I was watching a show on nat geo about ways to completely destroy the Earth (not just kill everyone, but completely blow up the planet so it's no longer there and it's just a bunch of fragments) and it said that you would need antimatter the size of Mt. Everest to completely destroy the earth. Just a little cool idea.
[QUOTE=DiscoPony;21388166]I knew I should have edited the original post.
From page 2! Thanks for reading.[/QUOTE]
i actually read that post after i made that post :(
i tend to reply to a post on the first page of the thread, then read all the other pages of the thread
FP, we should hold up CERN and EARN SOME MONEY!
Eudoxia your threads are great, keep up the good work.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
