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Scientists trap and tame a single particle of antimatter for months (news.northwestern.edu)
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[–] 9 points 2 days ago* (5 children)

Yeah very literal. Would need millions of atoms of the stuff. Actually maybe that's too dangerous lol

We have managed to see a single strontium atom - link. Maybe that's attainable with anti-matter.

But yeah you're right, capturing an anti-hyrdogen emission would be an huge achievement itself!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Make the glass of anti water on the moon just in case heh.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    Just for fun I did the Maths.

    Rougly a 100ml glass of anti-water has 100g of anti-water (assuming same density as normal pure water, which is around 1).

    When anti-mater contacts mater it transforms into energy according to E = mc^2^ were E is in Joule and m is in kg.

    For 100g of anti-water to turn into energy in this way it also needs 100g of normal mater, so the number is doubled.

    Using the rounded 300,000,000 m/s for the constant c, the energy released by the annihilation of a 100ml glass of anti-water (and the matching 100g of normal mater) would be 1.8e+16 Joules, equivalent to around 4.3 Megatons of TNT.

    So basically a regular nuclear bomb.

    PS: I actually expected it would be much more energy before I did the maths.

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