CERN have been generating and destroying anti-matter for the past week with no problems. It's not exactly going to randomly blow up in our faces now, of all times.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;26120703]Doesnt work like that. You would still need to maintain a strong field around the antimatter to separate it from everything else, only once the bomb reaches its target would the field be turned off or disrupted allowing the nifty explosion.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but storing it for only a short amount of time would be relatively doable, what becomes a real pain in the ass would be storing it like normal nukes and keeping them stored for decades.
[QUOTE=Tentacle;26120708]CERN have been generating and destroying anti-matter for the past week with no problems. It's not exactly going to randomly blow up in our faces now, of all times.[/QUOTE]
Small amounts that are easily contained.
[QUOTE=Elexar;26120684]Doesn't it also leave a big sphere of empty instead of the regular "kablaaaam"? I don't remember where I got this from, though.[/QUOTE]
Unless I'm mistaken, no. While the antimatter touching matter does annihilate both, only the atoms that come in contact with the AT would be annihilated, so when that kilogram of antimatter has touched 1 kilogram of antimatter, the annihilation will stop. The real explosion would be just the release of energy (like a normal nuke).
I still preferred the "big sphere of nothing", would be a lot cooler :saddowns:
[QUOTE=superdinoman;26120757]Small amounts that are easily contained.[/QUOTE]
Precisely my point - the amount they're able to create has quadrupled in the past 10 years, but it's still an infinitesimally small amount. No problem.
[QUOTE=acds;26120638]1kg of anti-matter equals more or less 43 megatons. As you can imagine 1 ton of antimatter would make one huge boom.[/QUOTE]
More like 21 because half the energy given off is as neutrinos which don't do shit to us
we are so gonna die in an awesome but horrible way
"Damn, there is a fly on the antimatter jar. Little fucker I'm gonna kill yo-"
[QUOTE=Tentacle;26120778]Precisely my point - the amount they're able to create has quadrupled in the past 10 years, but it's still an infinitesimally small amount. No problem.[/QUOTE]
I was mainly responding to the whole talk about weapons and using Antimatter for energy, as of right now it isnt going to happen anytime soon.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;26120814]I was mainly responding to the whole talk about weapons and using Antimatter for energy, as of right now it isnt going to happen anytime soon.[/QUOTE]
Oh, my bad. :buddy:
They didn't just make antimatter, that's been done before. They made antimatter atoms, your title is a bit misleading.
[QUOTE=noctune9;26120840]They didn't just make antimatter, that's been done before. They made antimatter atoms, your title is a bit misleading.[/QUOTE]
No, we've been making antihydrogen since 1995
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;26120856]No, we've been making antihydrogen since 1995[/QUOTE]
I see. I must have misunderstood.
[QUOTE=viperfan7;26120620]Didn't someone put up the explosive power of an antimatter/matter annihalation in the forums some time ago in killotons, didn't a gram of each have the explosive power of 50 tons of TNT?[/QUOTE]
Actually it's 42 kT for one gram anti-matter and one gram matter.
Even though it was mentioned, here's a video.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTc-TGapL9Y[/media]
[QUOTE=aVoN;26121046]Actually it's 42 kT for one gram anti-matter and one gram matter.[/QUOTE]
Sure would make the 4th of July better.
[QUOTE=Tentacle;26120708]CERN have been generating and destroying anti-matter for the past week with no problems. It's not exactly going to randomly blow up in our faces now, of all times.[/QUOTE]
Even for years by now. Every particle collider is able to create anti-matter. And finally at 1995 CERN created anti-hydrogen (not just anti-particles). Hell, even an isotop which decays by [img]http://math.daggeringcats.com/?\beta^{+}[/img]-radition emits positrons. And the positron is known since 1932.
How much antimatter would it take to crack the earth in two do you think?
[QUOTE=aVoN;26121046]Actually it's 42 kT for one gram anti-matter and one gram matter.[/QUOTE]
That's pretty fucking big.
Not so much a 'matchstick' now is it.
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[QUOTE=STREWTH_99;26121114]How much antimatter would it take to crack the earth in two do you think?[/QUOTE]
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About the size of the vatican.[/I]
[QUOTE=RayDark;26121126]That's pretty fucking big.
Not so much a 'matchstick' now is it.[/QUOTE]
But it's 1g, which is very very very very very very (times one billion) much compared to the amount they can create at CERN or every other particle collider right now. Every by mankind created anti-matter can be used to power up a 60W lightbulb for a few minutes.
[QUOTE=Truchappo;26120431]Kaboom if any nano-mistake made.[/QUOTE]
do you realize how small of an amount this is lol
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it might annihilate a few particles but nothing more
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aVon, does denser antimatter (ie uranium and stuff) cause bigger booms?
So does anyone know what a Antimatter explosion would look like? Is it just like a nuke or what?
[QUOTE=STREWTH_99;26121114]How much antimatter would it take to crack the earth in two do you think?[/QUOTE]
Consider that 3kg would equal the Tsar Bomba (as Johnny said, 1kg is 43 megatons but half is going to neutrinos), and that had a shockwave that could be registered the third time going around the earth. 1 ton of antimatter would be 21 gigatons, I don't know if it would split the planet in half, but it would definitely be apocalyptic.
Imagine if we'd put the 21 gigaton bomb inside the earth :v:
I just want to point this out. If anti matter and matter were to touch and explode wouldn't it just be the atoms that touched? Not the entire thing? And the force of explosion by those touching, wouldn't they push the atoms away from each other?
[QUOTE=booster;26121351]So does anyone know what a Antimatter explosion would look like? Is it just like a nuke or what?[/QUOTE]
They exaggerated it to hell in Angels and Demons. I suspect it would just be a large explosion, no idea on color or intensity.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;26121357]Related:
[url]http://www.charlespellegrino.com/propulsion.htm[/url][/QUOTE]
stop posting this
it will not be possible for that much antimatter to be produced for
HUGE
amounts of time
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[QUOTE=darkrei9n;26121532]I just want to point this out. If anti matter and matter were to touch wouldn't it just be the atoms that touched? Not the entire thing? And the force of explosion by those touching, wouldn't they push the atoms away from each other?[/QUOTE]
lol
what do you mean "just the atoms that touched"? matter IS atoms
have u taken 4th grade science
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[QUOTE=superdinoman;26121540]They exaggerated it to hell in Angels and Demons. I suspect it would just be a large explosion, no idea on color or intensity.[/QUOTE]
no pigment, no flames
etc
[QUOTE=Dazza;26121554]stop posting this
it will not be possible for that much antimatter to be produced for
HUGE
amounts of time
[/QUOTE]
Have you even bothered to read the Asimov Array part? :downs:
[QUOTE=Dazza;26121554]stop posting this
it will not be possible for that much antimatter to be produced for
HUGE
amounts of time
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lol
what do you mean "just the atoms that touched"? matter IS atoms
have u taken 4th grade science
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no pigment, no flames
etc[/QUOTE]
Have you taken, well any sort of education? If so, please spell correctly (or at least don't be so cocky). Also he was right, the atoms that do touch and annihilate eachother could possibly push the other atoms away from the anti-atoms (though the explosion would make the other anti-atoms collide with other matter around it, so while they wouldn't react with the intended atoms, they still would end up in annihilation).
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