Will a lab glitch spell doom for us all?

Question

I've read articles lately detailing NASA having a stockpile of 200-500 POUNDS of anti-matter and temperatures in particle accelerators reaching 1.7 billion degrees. Would it not take just one minor power glitch in a containment field to vaporize or blow up a large chunk of what we know as earth?

Answer 1

dont be ridiculous

Answer 2

You have heard wrong. There is no antimatter stored anywhere in the world. A few subatomic antimatter particles are sometimes created in particle accelerator experiments, but they get destroyed in a short time by interactions with matter. None is in storage. Really. None at all.