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[โ€“] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

its not like star trek, where they produces kgs at a time, which is nuclear level events if they "collide"

[โ€“] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

kgs

For reference, a single kilogram of antimatter reacting with regular matter would create an explosion only slightly smaller than the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested, and well over a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.