Matter/Antimatter spacecraft

[Captain Holland 0]

I was just readeing a thing on howstuffworks.com and it was about matter/antimatter propulsion. Very interesting, I didn't know we could make antimatter, but we can. What are your thoughts?Heres the link. Click Here.

[trekzone 0]

yeah, they make it at the Fermilab in America.....but its vvery unstable

[removed 0]

Wow. Thank-you so much for bringing this site to my attention. I'm currently brushing up on some science. lol.

[SoCalTom 0]

One other site you should visit is

this one. The guy is on the same level as Carl Sagan & Steven Hawking.

[nik 0]

yeah, they make it at the Fermilab in America.....but its vvery unstable

Fermilab has a device to accelerate protons and antiprotons (in a ring in opposite directions) at energies of about 1TeV or so (99.99996% the speed of light), so that

collisions between the two beams (about the diameter of a human hair, and much, much , much less dense than air) produce sub-nuclear interactions so that scientists can study the internal nature of nucleons. However, the antimatter produced here is

miniscule. If suddenly released into the atmosphere, it would not explode violently as

in the movies. It also takes about a billion times more energy to produce this antimatter than the energy it would produce in a matter/antimatter collision.

The facility I work at also produces antimatter as more of a by-product of our studies. It's produced in nearly negligible amounts.

 

Princeton Univerisity has a device called a TOKAMAK, which is essentially a magnetic storage bottle for antimatter. It's a fascinating device as well.

[Captain Holland 0]

yeah, they make it at the Fermilab in America.....but its vvery unstable

Fermilab has a device to accelerate protons and antiprotons (in a ring in opposite directions) at energies of about 1TeV or so (99.99996% the speed of light), so that

collisions between the two beams (about the diameter of a human hair, and much, much , much less dense than air) produce sub-nuclear interactions so that scientists can study the internal nature of nucleons. However, the antimatter produced here is

miniscule. If suddenly released into the atmosphere, it would not explode violently as

in the movies. It also takes about a billion times more energy to produce this antimatter than the energy it would produce in a matter/antimatter collision.

The facility I work at also produces antimatter as more of a by-product of our studies. It's produced in nearly negligible amounts.

 

Princeton Univerisity has a device called a TOKAMAK, which is essentially a magnetic storage bottle for antimatter. It's a fascinating device as well.

That's cool.

[Derro 0]

I heard that the costs of producing anti-matter is so expensive that to run a light bulb on a matter/anti-matter reaction would cost 1000 times that of the entire GNP of the US.