• CERN sucessfully creates and traps antimatter
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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] It wouldn't have color or any sort of 'explosion' like thing, it would be like a massive air bubble had just fucked everything.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;26120467]Oh shit, Ewan McGregor is going blow up the Vatican![/QUOTE] I hope he does
Awesome.
[QUOTE=RayDark;26121649]It wouldn't have color or any sort of 'explosion' like thing, it would be like a massive air bubble had just fucked everything.[/QUOTE] Yes but the gasses that become ignited would produce color.
[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] Yeah, at a glance it seems very similar to nuclear explosions. Matter is destroyed, releasing intense amounts of energy. The rest is just how the surrounding air reacts to this energy. So, an antimatter explosion would be like a super efficient nuclear explosion, same effect but with a much smaller mass. But this is all just me guesstimating.
The gamma rays themselves would have no colour, but even though gases are terribly at absorbing them, inside an atmosphere with our pressure, enough gamma would be absorbed and a few cubic kilometers of air would shine white-hot, red-hot, and violet-hot, until they radiate away and fry the surface. This of course depends on the amounts used, but it shouldn't be much greater than a thousandth of a gram.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;26121605]Have you even bothered to read the Asimov Array part? :downs:[/QUOTE] yes that's the part that won't be feasible for a long time
[QUOTE=Dazza;26122145]yes that's the part that won't be feasible for a long time[/QUOTE] Eric Drexler would like to have a few words with you. Actually, anybody who isn't a creepy anti-science luddite.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;26122178]Eric Drexler would like to have a few words with you. Actually, anybody who isn't a creepy anti-science luddite.[/QUOTE] you can make an argument from authority all you'd like, but you're still wrong [editline]17th November 2010[/editline] asimov arrays will probably never happen tbqh
Wonder how they keep it trapped?
Fuck yeah, antimatter. [editline]17th November 2010[/editline] Does it blow up on touch with matter ?
[QUOTE=Dazza;26122213]you can make an argument from authority all you'd like, but you're still wrong [editline]17th November 2010[/editline] asimov arrays will probably never happen tbqh[/QUOTE] Do you even know what you're talking about? Start off my spelling correctly, and seriously know, do you even know? Have you even read any Wikipedia article?
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;26122235] Does it blow up on touch with matter ?[/QUOTE] No it makes clouds
Onwards to anti-matter generators :3:.
I've been to alpha. It's awesome.
Now we just wait until they build a facility specifically for producing antimatter on a bigger scale. And hope that whoever does it don´t drop it
[QUOTE=BreenIsALie;26122516]Now we just wait until they build a facility specifically for producing antimatter on a bigger scale. And hope that whoever does it don´t drop it[/QUOTE] Yeah the circumference of the moon, sounds like a great idea I wonder who will pay for it.
This isn't very new. It's been publicized a lot already
To all the people going "Ohshit it's going to blow up" They've created around 2000 particles of antimatter. Assuming they're all anti-hydrogen (they're not), this is 1.7e-21 times the number of particles they need to create a 42kT explosion. So the energy produced would create an explosion of around 7e-20kT, or in other words, nothing to care about. All approximations of course, but it should give you the general idea.
[QUOTE=kimr120;26122232]Wonder how they keep it trapped?[/QUOTE] Probably in a vacuum
Isn't the method for trapping antimatter the same as capturing ghosts in ghostbusters Because that would be sexy as fuck
[QUOTE=kimr120;26122232]Wonder how they keep it trapped?[/QUOTE] Fuckin' magnets.
Antimatter bomb. :ohdear:
[QUOTE=booster;26121351]So does anyone know what a Antimatter explosion would look like? Is it just like a nuke or what?[/QUOTE] It's a big release of energy like with a nuke. Depending on the heat, it will have a different color, e.g. bluish/white. The heat will cause the air around it moving up, creating the known "nuke-mushroom"-effect.
Just so you know one particle of antimatter is about 10,000,000,000 tons of rocket fuel. [editline]17th November 2010[/editline] Thats enough to destroy the planet. [editline]17th November 2010[/editline] 100 times over.
lol 2011 nice bs
[QUOTE=mr.killa;26123486]Just so you know one particle of antimatter is about 10,000,000,000 tons of rocket fuel. [editline]17th November 2010[/editline] Thats enough to destroy the planet. [editline]17th November 2010[/editline] 100 times over.[/QUOTE] No it's not you silly billy go and relearn your physics
An explosion of that size could cause the planet to implode into a singularity.
[QUOTE=mr.killa;26123486]Just so you know one particle of antimatter is about 10,000,000,000 tons of rocket fuel. [editline]17th November 2010[/editline] Thats enough to destroy the planet. [editline]17th November 2010[/editline] 100 times over.[/QUOTE] Uh huh, yeah.
[QUOTE=mr.killa;26123486]Just so you know one particle of antimatter is about 10,000,000,000 tons of rocket fuel. [editline]17th November 2010[/editline] Thats enough to destroy the planet. [editline]17th November 2010[/editline] 100 times over.[/QUOTE] No. 1kg of antimatter is 21 megatons, which is a medium-sized hydrogen bomb.
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