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shlak 16/1/2010(Sat)07:50:45 No.460421

hello /sci/ what are your thoughts on antimatter and protonium

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Anonymous 16/1/2010(Sat)09:26:49 No.460540

It's sort of like matter's evil twin
Because except for charge and handedness and spin
they're the same for a particle and it's anti-self

I do find the asymmetry between matter and anti-matter interesting, and I think that when we eventually find a way to contain and transport it safely, it may make an excellent fuel.

I don't know, what did you want me to say?

shlak 17/1/2010(Sun)04:34:09 No.460821

you watch too much angels and demons... it takes more energy to make anti matter than it can give.. it isnt a good fuel source

Anonymous 17/1/2010(Sun)06:52:00 No.461248

it's beautiful

Anonymous 17/1/2010(Sun)11:50:24 No.461441

>>460821
No, I don't even know what that is...from context, I assume some sort of TV show.

In any case, You're misinterpreting what I mean by fuel. I fully accept that we can't harvest antirocks out of the earth an burn them. What I'm talking about is taking some other sort of energy (solar, nuclear, whatever), and converting it into antimatter. The reason for this is that a small amount of antimatter has a ridiculous energy density, so in cases where the weight of the fuel is important (like rocket launches), it will make an excellent fuel, no matter where the energy to make it came from in the first place.

Anonymous 18/1/2010(Mon)06:34:34 No.462425

>>461441
Well, a tiny amount of antimatter produces a ridiculous high amount of energy but you need a ridiculous high amount of energi to produce a tiny amount of antimatter. Now remember that there is no 100% efficient energy conversion(most of the energy used to produce antimatter will be lost and most of the energy got from antimatter will be lost too) and that store something that reacts with any matter need constant energy use this isn't a great thing to use as fuel.

TL;DR too expensive and, instable and too hard to store.

Anonymous 15/2/2010(Mon)11:27:08 No.502889

I originally thought antimatter had negative mass. Unfortunately most physicists contend that while everything else is opposite, it has positive mass. So someone can't build an anti-matter bomb and have say, the Empire State Building vanish, which would be cool and also scary.

Anonymous 17/2/2010(Wed)07:11:29 No.505183

>>462425

solar farms on other planets

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