do you think anti-matter will ever make an impact on the human race?

Question

in any way. weapons,energy,destruction,prosperity,space travel, etc etc

Answer 1

Hate to break it to you all, but we use antimatter
all the time. It is not rare or mysterious. I use it
everyday at my work at a particle accelerator.
Antimatter is always around us in limited amount.
It is simply a particle with opposite charge (along with
some other values) but the same mass as another
particle. Electrons and positrons, for example. Positrons
are given off in radioactive decays. Photons are their own
antimatter particle.

People really treat it as some magical and futuristic
substance, but it is really nothing any more special than
anything else. We've been studying and using it for about
80 years now.

Answer 2

Yes. The US Air Force is already researching antimatter weapons and very small quantities have been made for research. It has been calculated that even at a cost of a billion dollars per gram, it would be cheaper to use antimatter as a propellant for moon flight than traditional fuels.

The problem are in storage and use. Antimatter reactions produce intense gamma radiation which would be difficult to shielf against, and a rocket that used it would have to be at least a kilometer long, given the present state of our technology.

Antimatter is stored in a device called a Penning trap, where it is kept levitated in a magnetic field. It can be stored at cryogenic temperatures as long as it is ionized so that it can be moved by electrical and magnetic fields, because no material can touch it without destroying it.

Answer 3

John T is optimal.... different than i think we are able to be sure the 1st anti-be counted area shuttle engine being placed into usual use in as low as a century from now....i do no longer think of we are able to have that plenty concern coming up with the gasoline for the engine (cylindrical plutonium pellets??? I examine someplace some physicist got here up with the belief of employing a blast plate to propel the starship...a small cylindrical shaped can charge of plutonium could be ejected out the rear end and an explosion could ensue, the blast then could circulate the deliver forward. Such explosions could desire to ensue seconds or perhaps miliseconds after one yet another??? is this undertaking Orion that we are speaking concerning to right here??) on the different hand I do have faith we could use wormholes as a potential of transportation...yet I do have faith close to-LT propulsion engines stands out as the norm till we are able to extra desirable comprehend the physics of wormholes.....

Answer 4

Maybe eventually, but we are still too far from harnessing anti-matter in a realistic form. Anti-matter doesn't last very long since it is surrounded by matter and will therefore annihilate. There is no doubt that a matter - anti-matter annihilation of particles that have some mass (ie Uranium - Anti-Uranium collision) would be very energetic. So maybe eventually...

Answer 5

Not in the NEAR future. PErhaps in another hundred years. But the current level of technology available precludes us messing with anti-matter.

Answer 6

It depends on whether we will be able to make enough quantity of anti matter to be able to use it. There may be anti matter some where out there, but it will probably not be able to make it here, as it will get anihilated the moment it gets into contact with "anti-anti-matter".

Answer 7

Not nearly as profound an impact as Auntie-matter.

Answer 8

it might have an impact on the anti-human race

Answer 9

Only if we travel in space to a place which is antimatter.