Antimatter Discovery Could Pave Way for Galactic Flight

Scientists at the CERN laboratory believe the future of space flight lies in the recent discovery of antimatter.

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[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.

[bluewolverine40]

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

[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.

[fliteshare]

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

[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

[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

[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.

[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.