NASA | Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes Create Antimatter

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected beams of antimatter launched by thunderstorms. Acting like enormous particle accelerators, the storms can emit gamma-ray flashes, called TGFs, and high-energy electrons and positrons. Scientists now think that most TGFs produce particle beams and antimatter.

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[ThePhantom710]

@Jaxurcar1

True...but it would take decades to harvest even a few grams of antimatter produced by thunderstorms.

[ThePhantom710]

@rasheeqhere

Possibly. the tricky part is getting antimatter into the bottle and not have it interact with matter before there is a chance to harvest it. However, it is a much more efficient way than generating our own antimatter

[ThePhantom710]

Yes...because Gamma rays and antimatter are always a good thing to have

[Jaxurcar1]

Needs testing to prove if the electron positron pair is created, or just a positron is created by the y-ray electron interaction. If the ladder proves true, we have a way out of the energy crisis.

[Rips4Dayzzz]

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[rasheeqhere]

@Mexicanlifes It is possible to collect antimatter if we use a magnetic 'bottle' so it is isolated from matter

[ecobenoman]

@favre4beast Interesting point

[Mexicanlifes]

there is no way to collect the antimatter as it would destroy the collection unit because it would be made of matter (as is our universe) and they would cancel each other out i.e. explosion of both.when the anitmatter is created in space it explodes because as I said brfore our universe is made of matter.

[diyroof]

Good! Really would like very much more!

[MrMikeMrMikeMrMikeMr]

@FortNikitaBullion ur right... i failed here.