Antimatter

[Liskenger]

Do you believe that there is antimatter out there in the universe somewhere?

[Lightknight924]

Ofcourse, antimatter detonates to anything it is exposed to. Or so I read in Angels and Demons. In the Prologue.


Edit* I know Guido, sorry, I try.

[GuidoHunter]

Yes, there's plenty of antimatter in the universe.

And guess what.

Get this.

You ready?

We create it in laboratories. =O

EDIT: Light, you really have to work on your vocabulary...

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Liskenger]

I know we create it in labs. And I have read angels and demons. But whats the purpose of it. I mean if you can create it in labs, cant you create other things like for example AntiWater that if it were to only touch water it could detonate or something? Like do you think that antimatter can help us kill diseases like AIDS? Theres so many possibilities that the world hasn't uncovered yet.

[dooty_7]

actually anti atoms have been created. Just hydrogen so far to my knowledge. simply a positron "orbiting" an antiproton. As for a purpose, i can't really think of any aside from its importance in the Big Bang theories.

[Reach]

Purpose? A near infinite source of energy. Atleast to us on earth.

Universally, it's not nearly enough for intergalactic space travel. Not without a more advanced theory of warp travel, which might happen by the time we are able to use antimatter. Either way, it would provide the earth with an incredible amount of energy, and would also allow for extremely fast space travel. We're probably going to master fusion long before antimatter though.

[Lightknight924]

Anitmatter is an atom in which the protons are charged negative and the electrons are charged positive. It pretty much detonates to anything it is exposed to. It also has tremendous energy density.Right now, antimatter is the most expensive substance on Earth. In the trillions. I think an ounce of antimatter is four times stronger than the Nuclear bomb we dropped on Hiroshima.

[GuidoHunter]

PEOPLE! Please stop using the word detonate; it is not the proper word. If anything, annihilate.

Now, we aren't going to use antimatter for anything other than studying particle physics because, if I may quote from chardish's away message "Once we lose magnetic containment, Mr. Antimatter is no longer our friend." First, we need a lot of energy in order to create the antimatter, so Reach's idea is not only impractical, it's also inefficient. On top of that, it cannot contact anything larger than, say, a couple of protons, or else there'd be problems. So, nix the antivirus idea, too.

Light, the hydrogen bomb is about a hundred more times powerful than the atomic bomb. That isn't saying anything about antimatter, but yeah. Also, antimatter's energy density (or whatever you call it) is just the same of matter's. You know that E=mc[sup]2[/sup]? That's just showing how you can convert mass to energy, which is exactly what antimatter annihilation does. Since antimatter has exactly the same properties as matter, one kilogram of it is going to have the same energy capacity as a kilogram of regular matter.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Tasselfoot]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-matter

I win this discussion.

Case closed.