Do you think we will ever create large quantities of antimatter? What about superdense neutron star matter?

Question

Antimatter of course has extremely useful practical applications, but what about neutron star matter? If we could safely construct large amounts of such matter, what could we use it for? (Antimatter has been created at CERN and other particle accelerators in minute amounts, of course, but as far as I know no one has created anything like neutron star matter.)

Answer 1

the superdense matter that you refer to would be potentially possible to recreate but the amounts of energy required to do so do not currently exist......and i would question the value of doing it and whether the outlay could justify the results or their uses.....but the superdense material found in collapsing stars is caused by the gravitational pull sucking up everything in its path until it squeezes itself out of existence, wouldn't wanna get sucked in by that ;)

Answer 2

The only way to keep neutron star matter together is to store it inside a neutron star... so the answer would be NOPE.

Antimatter could be produced in any quantities required. It would just be extremely expensive. But there are no known technological limitations to making kgs or even tons of it. Economical limits are an entirely different matter, of course.

Answer 3

We have no need to create large amounts of neutron star matter, it is degenerate and useless.

Antimatter has the potential to solve our energy problems, but could also be used as an unimaginable WMD.

Answer 4

I am unaware of any useful use of anti mater. It is dangerous stuff, how would it be stored? Neutrons are in everything and we know the horrendous effect of fission, which is the result of surplus neutrons. Controlling neutrons in a fission reactor is managed fairly well but the conditions are are there for disaster, Chernoble is proof of that.

Answer 5

I'm not so good at nuclear physics. Which nuclear reaction yields anti-protons as one of its products? Don't you somehow need two anti-up quarks and one anti-down quark for that? I mean, yeah, nuclear reactions sometimes produce positrons, but for real material type antimatter, you also need to make the anti-hadrons, and I personally don't know how that's done.

Answer 6

The energy requirements and containment
technologies are not currently available.

Neither would probably ever be what you
might call "safe".
Failure of containment of any significant quantity
of either would be catastrophic.

Maybe after we manange to contain a fusion
plasma, we can start working on these.

Answer 7

"RIGHT NOW", that would be impossible, but that does not mean that it will be impossible for all time. there have been many advances in the field of physics over the past century, who knows what the future will bring...