Awesome Anti-Matter
Published by Anti matter is one of the most fascinating substances in physics. More reactive than even the most violent of Alkali metals, and releasing more energy per KG than even the most devastating nuclear weapons. Anti matter is pretty impressive stuff.
Anti matter was predicted to exist by the brilliant British Mathematician Paul Dirac in 1928, and the simplest form of anti matter (Positrons- positively charged electrons), where detected a few years later in cosmic rays. Since then, anti matter has inspired science fiction writers and theorists alike with many wild ideas. CERN, famous as being the home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) also contains facilities for experimenting with anti matter.
In this short series of articles, I will be looking at anti matter and illustrating just how powerful it is. Those of you who don’t have any background in physics need not worry, I’ll explain everything step by step (though a little knowledge of maths will help)!
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We all need to start somewhere and this short piece explains what anti matter is, and how it produces energy. Have you ever wondered what E=MC2 means? Find out here!
It’s a sad fact that war drives human innovation. With anti matter we have the possibility of creating weapons that make nukes look like pea shooters.
Could anti matter hold the key to the stars? Part of the problem of space travel is moving at speeds great enough to cover the vast tracts of space in a meaningful amount of time. In this article I show how we could use anti matter to get to mars in 6 months- using only 500KG of fuel.
If anti matter is so great, why aren’t we using it for everything? Find out here.
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On May 18, 2009 at 11:03 am
you have done really well to display this to bring it to attention!