Antimatter Explosions

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/space-antimatter-explosions.html Antimatter is something better left to the experts. James Williams shows why.

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Science & Technology

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• space
• exploration
• explode
• explosion
• antimatter
• anti matter
• bombs
• implode
• universe
• matter
• dave mosher

[OtherVerse]

Hey EmeraldRuby2,

This video is already wrong enough. Please don't add to the problem with your troll math.

Also, remember that the Tevatron accelerates particles and antiparticles to very high momenta. So when they collide, they liberate about 1000 times more energy than would be accounted for by their rest masses.

But the key point is that even the Tevatron's maximum antiproton stash gets routinely deflected into a beam dump target, where it generates heat, but certainly no "explosions".

[OtherVerse]

junkydude100, don't repeat this ignorant video's bad information.

Saying that antimatter "explodes" is as wrong as calling a snowflake an avalanche.

Fermilab is the world record holder for creating and storing antimatter.

Antiproton mass = 938.27 MeV = 1.503x10^-10 Joules.

Even at the peak stacking rate (3x10^11 per hour) the energy from pair annihilations would be

(3x10^11)(2)(1.503x10^-10 J) = 90 Joules per hour.

By way of comparison, your food energy in a teaspoon of sugar is 67000 Joules.

[ttwilkable]

really informative and interesting

[smuggecko]

really informative and interesting

[BIGGUYRULES]

@OtherVerse damn man you on a roll

[TheZekei]

Also, one gram of pure energy as represented by the equation E=mc^2, where mass is converted to energy with 100% efficiency, releases a slightly larger amount of energy as a nuclear bomb (with ~.03% efficiency),

[TheZekei]

@OtherVerse Remember the, "wait 2 billion years" part? This video is explaining how, firstly, one must devise a way to store antimatter, and then get .5 grams of what I'm assuming is antihydrogen, or 301100000000000000000000 antiprotons and antielectrons. Lets see, by your peak creation per hour data, lets see how many hours it would take to get that many antiprotons and antielectrons... Oh, yes, about 1003666666666.6bar7 hours. Converting to years gives 114888583.64 years. Yeah.. inaccurate

[burninmunkeys]

@heartlessvietboy You guess too much.

[heartlessvietboy]

I guess anti-matter means not matter, not opposite of matter. I guess there is also dark matter (LOL).

[burninmunkeys]

@heartlessvietboy anti-matter is not the opposite of matter in that it is nothing, it's the opposite in the sense of how a dog and cat are opposite, only neither of them survive when they get put together.

[heartlessvietboy]

What the heck are they writing??? If matter is everything and anti-matter is nothing. How can nothing explode?