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RE: When Elena met Isolde, aka the antimatter CERN tour on the back of a puma

in #steemstem7 years ago (edited)

I once read a documentary about Antimatter being the world's costliest material (I think it stood at some few trillion dollars per gram), I wouldn't know if it still maintains that ranking.
Haven't really read much about Antimatter apart from one theoretical proposition I read about powering spaceship with Antimatter. How possible is this?

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I once read a documentary about Antimatter being the world's costliest material (I think it stood at some few trillion dollars per gram), I wouldn't know if it still maintains that ranking.

This is correct and wrong at the same time. Positrons are antimatter particles and can be produced very easily. However, if by antimatter, one refers to antihydrogen, then the costs are huge.

Haven't really read much about Antimatter apart from one theoretical proposition I read about powering spaceship with Antimatter. How possible is this?

This relies on positrons. However, I don't know the exact status. Just that there is a bunch of researches about that and we are very far from any concrete working example (at least to my knowledge).

Thanks a lot for the quick lectures sir.
Well, the beauty of learning is in "learning, un-learning, and re-learning"

Un-learning? naaah... See this more like an update. This sounds more positive ;)

You're absolutely correct sir.. It's actually an update :)

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