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Scientists trap and tame a single particle of antimatter for months
(news.northwestern.edu)
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Yeah very literal. Would need millions of atoms of the stuff. Actually maybe that's too dangerous lol
We have managed to see a single strontium atom - link. Maybe that's attainable with anti-matter.
But yeah you're right, capturing an anti-hyrdogen emission would be an huge achievement itself!
Make the glass of anti water on the moon just in case heh.
Just for fun I did the Maths.
Rougly a 100ml glass of anti-water has 100g of anti-water (assuming same density as normal pure water, which is around 1).
When anti-mater contacts mater it transforms into energy according to E = mc^2^ were E is in Joule and m is in kg.
For 100g of anti-water to turn into energy in this way it also needs 100g of normal mater, so the number is doubled.
Using the rounded 300,000,000 m/s for the constant c, the energy released by the annihilation of a 100ml glass of anti-water (and the matching 100g of normal mater) would be 1.8e+16 Joules, equivalent to around 4.3 Megatons of TNT.
So basically a regular nuclear bomb.
PS: I actually expected it would be much more energy before I did the maths.
Make that an anti-glass!
Shit. See, I already blew the moon up.
It's been done, but not in the visible spectrum: https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/first-spectroscopic-measurement-anti-atom