What countries have antimatter technology?

Question

Okay, I know antimatter is in Angels & Deamons by: Dan Brown, but it really exists. I am fairly sure that the United States has antimatter, but do other countrys?

Answer 1

In answer to your direct question look for countries with particle accelerators. That's probably your most reliable source of antimatter, which is usually produced from the extremely high energy particle collisions produced by slamming together regular particles of matter like protons and such.

A quick scan of a list from the University of Bonn (below) reveals the following countries:
* Argentina
* Belgium
* Brazil
* Britain
* Canada
* China
* Denmark
* France
* Germany
* India
* Italy
* Japan
* Netherlands
* Russia
* South Africa
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Taiwan
* USA

Not every one of those accelerators are going to have the power or be configured to produce antimatter reliably, but that list is a starting point. You could also add to that countries which know how to make and use PET scanners (Positron Emission Tomography) used for studying the brain. I don't know how to track down a list of countries using them.

That said, it's of little technological use because although we know how to produce them and detect them we can only produce a handful of particles at a time and we can't store antimatter in any practical manner for long enough and in sufficient amounts to be of any use.

Our current limits on handling antimatter are we can slow it down using a method called "laser cooling" and we can trap small quantities of it using what's called a "Penning Trap" which suspends small collections of particles in a combination of electric and magnetic fields. See below for a link to the SMILETRAP in Sweden, which is an example.

Remember that by "small quantities" I literally mean handfuls of particles, where you don't even have enough to make a billionth of a billionth of a gram.

Answer 2

Antimatter as defined by Science is incorrect. What the accepted idealism is that it annihilates matter. Rubbish. Antimatter is the third entity of the Trinity. The Trinity is the Negative & Positive. The power of "&" is antimatter.
Take a bar magnet, break it and rejoin the parts. Until you preform this simple task you can not comprehend.
Does the United States have Antimatter technology? YES.
Will they develope it? No
Will another Government? YES
I have devices that will generate all the antimatter that you could possibly use. It cost nothing. That is why we will not develope it. It will destroy the economic dependancy on oil and all associated industries. It is a threat to National Security and Economic Stabilization.

Answer 3

Before anybody else puts down a bs answer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter
http://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromcern/antimatter/
IT DOES EXIST. If you read the beginning of Angels and Demons, everything on antimatter is a FACT. *twitch* It's so darn annoying seeing people take things as a joke just because they don't have enough information.

As for what countries have the technology, I'm not sure. =( Perhaps those articles mention it somewhere?

Answer 4

Wow some of you have to learn some basic sub-atomic-particle physics before you answer these type of questions. Anti-matter does exist. It has the opposite charge as it's anti-particle. Like an electron's anti-particle is called a positron. Photons, neutrons, neutrinos are their own anti-particles because they have no charge. And the people that said you can create it in particle accelerators are right. But it takes energy to accelerate particles up to the required KE for collisions so it's not very useful for ordinary purposes, only for experiments. Any country with a particle accelerator can create anti-particles. And if particles interact with their corresponding anti-particle the particles are turned in EM radiation, photons.
The guy above me is yanking your chain.

Answer 5

I know Italy, and Switzerland, USA has developed the technology and it is pooled with several European countries. Do not go by "Angels and Demons" of Danny boy.

Answer 6

The U.S , the Swiss and China do, possibly Italy the soviets are learning how to contain such a dangerous substance. At the university of Michigan they have the number one attendance for Iran, Iraq,Midwest cultures. We as Americans teach them our knowledge, and they return to there country, and do what exactly?.........scary stuff, but no need to fear.

Answer 7

None.

It is created briefly in particle accelerators, but it is of absolutely no practical technological use. You should base question on material from physicists not conspiracy theory novelists.

Answer 8

There is no such thing... too much Star Trek !!!! It only exists for millionths of a seconds in infinitely small quantities in particle accelerators where they smash atoms.

Answer 9

the planet zarg sells it through zardonia pacific

Answer 10

I think the Klingons have it!!

LOL

You're not serious are you???