Antimatter Discovery Could Pave Way for Galactic Flight

[redtuttensol]

but also to 0 speed

[redtuttensol]

does anyone know that we dont need much fuel in space as theres no friction. only to get speed and slow down. but we can just drive close to gravityspace to earth as a slingshot as we are dragged to it and then sendt off at 70% faster speed than we was then theres 0 stopping, and if we use solar sails to get up to speed then theres no problem. antimatter can get us to higher speeds than lightspeed

[ryanlitton86]

I don't think a human can survive going close to light speed. It would crush us and the space ship. We need a way to move quickly through space without actually going close to light speed. Like wormholes or warp engines.

[fliteshare]

@ryanlitton86 Read up on A. Einstein General Relativity theory because there might be a few things you have missed.

[ryanlitton86]

@randar1969 any ship traversing interstellar space would require massive electromagnetic shielding to protect its passengers from radiation as well as an extremely strong hull to protect against dust particles, which are few and far between in interstellar space.

[blackleelee666]

you guys suck ball u do

[NotRummy44]

Why is your map upside down.

[klunk64]

kool one singularity implosion device coming right up..the vacum bomb..starwars program back on standby

[Brantoc]

Imagine what we could be doing, if the "Super Collider" in texas was finished in the '90s. 2.5x the power of LHC. Funny to think they built the whole thing, and were $1B short of finishing it.

[masluxx]

i just want an antimatter powered battery for my lap top.

[PacalB]

Let's get something straight here, "if" you could make a ship that could used a form of energy to travel close to the speed of light like the "Enterprise" in the background there, it would be a one way trip for its passengers.

They could of course return back to Earth but thousands of years would have past, the Earth they left would no longer exist. Think "Planet of the Apes" movie on their return. Who knows what they would return to but It most certainly would not be the earth they left.

[Artifactorfiction]

Groan.....

[gregrutz]

That's great but it is still to far to the stars to go there.

[randar1969]

even if you could make an ship fly at lightspeed due basic science calculate what would happen if you fly against an dust molucule with those speeds it would destroy your spaceship.

In the end yes we might be able to make ship go that fast but never solve the problem of particals inpacting on an body going that fast.

[farriskc]

but what would they contain anti-matter in? If it comes in contact with any matter it causes a reaction.

[gregrutz]

@farriskc Magnetic fields contain it.

[timmy3822]

@farriskc The general idea I believe is that you suspend the antimatter using magnetic fields so that it doesn't come into contact with matter and annihilate in the process

[Peterwhitlock]

???

Anti mater is not only super costly to make and so not efficient at all is also not very practical ether when we KNOW we will build AI beings that simply are not prone to space like we are to do the work they are made to do. at best in the future Humans are CARGO!

cities on Mars will be of plenty of non Human mech to prepare the garden needed for Humans because the last are first and the first are last, You do not go to Mars and think to come back! You die live and die there to build there!

[luccaskunk]

Antimatter is not 100% efficient. It still takes more energy to produce it than it produces during a collision. The only real way to break that is to tap into something that's spending the energy anyway or perhaps some kind as yet undiscovered mechanism that causes a chain reaction. But until then, the energy cost that we spend to produce antimatter still outweighs the energy that you can get out of it.

[SiriusMined]

Thermonuclear fuel would not be "bombs" (unless you are talking about the Orion project)

[cgzebra1]

I think until we crack the actual substance of space/time (space in a vacuum) we are gnna be stuck on this corporate matrix of a shithole called planet earth

[MultiSteveB]

I think we'll have hot fusion-powered spaceships for a while before we get a handle on making, much less using, antimatter. The advent of a fusion power plant makes possible many things, including imo a Bussard Ramjet.

[fuzzywzhe]

The problem with anti-matter is that if you made a marble of it, and dropped it on the ground, it would kill everybody on earth.

[bradistic]

Unfortunately, antimatter isn't a source of energy because it is made using a lot of energy from conventional energy sources. It does, however, have a very high energy density. With antimatter as fuel, a spaceship could conceivable travel to and from the nearest stars without being 99% fuel. We will will need a dramatic energy revolution before we can make enough antimatter for practical applications.

[TheDailyConversation]

@bradistic Thanks for the insight.

[guatepower]

Will we finally be able to have fuel that could work for jetpacks? :D

[RunnerReign]

@guatepower jetpacks aren't science fiction, they actually exist

[bluewolverine40]

the oil companies will shut this down we cant have a fuel thats 100% efficient

[puncheex]

@bluewolverine40: There's no competition. Antimatter is and likely will remain super-expensive, perhaps too much to even get used for intergalactic flight. Oil (and coal), cheap here on Earth (regardless of what you think about gasoline prices), is not only expensive in space but hugely bulky. The oil companies don't care about antimatter; fission/fusion may be a different matter (no pun intended).

[aei05h1]

@bluewolverine40 By the time this technology is even close to fully developed there will be no such thing as an oil company because there will be no more oil.

[layahma]

Why isn't Flubber invented yet?

[WarMasterX6]

Ah finally wondered how long it would take XD sorry im impatient! X3

[aznguymetal]

@crocfme If anti-matter and matter combine, will it be powerful than Atomic or nuclear bomb.

[inademv]

Really the only concrete advancement made with the experiment was methods of containment for anti-matter. Also, idk about you guys but I plan to live forever.

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[pilebut]

antimatter produces constant and consistant 1.1 gigawatts lol

[sevadaj]

Beam me up Scotty! :-)

[galaxymk]

Nice!

[crocfme]

Very interesting. The challenge now is to store the stuff somehow - even the vacuum of space contains some matter, so keeping anti-matter apart from matter is a real trick...

From memory, I think it takes about 6 months to accelerate to 0.9 light speed at 1g., so allowing for decelleration, it will still take at least a year to go anywhere at near-light speed. (But; Alpha centauri in less than 18 months? - a goal worth working towards.) Great story. Great science.

[dangerouslytalented]

@crocfme Gravity. If they find a way of manipulating gravity, then they can set it up so that the antimatter is stabilised AND the g forces at speed are minimised.

[crocfme]

@dangerouslytalented

Youtube doesn't like me today: Keeps telling me "error, try again". But here goes:

Manipulating 1 of the most basic laws of physics; gravity, would be quite a feat - but:"never say never"! It would certainly allow for the safe containment of ant-matter. I believe magnetic fields inside a vacuum are being tried too. Either way, I certainly hope they succeed one day..

[jason0998]

amazing stuff 

[EricBoisen]

I would prefer time travel, can someone figure out how a flux capacitor works and soon? I loved this story when I heard about it.

[aznguymetal]

@EricBoisen In time traveling, I've learn that you can't go back in the past or backward; however, you only can go forward to the future or slow time.

[Leroy8127]

@aznguymetal nobody has ever survived or even attempted time travelling yet, since the current thoughts on time travelling (correct me if I'm wrong) is that time in a black hole is much faster than that of the earth. Therefore 24 hours in a black hole may equal to several years on the earth. However, the gravitational force within a black hole will kill you instantly... that's the only problem =/

[aznguymetal]

@Leroy8127 According to Einstein's theory, if you get closer to a black hole, it actually slows down the flow of time than speed up the time. Therefore, near a black hole, the slowing of time is extreme. And yeah it true, you be kill going near the black hole.

The only way to speed time if time slows down for objects travelling near the speed of light, because it explains how light continues to travel at it's constant rate, despite the speed of the observer relative to it