antimatter, good or bad?

Ok, first of all, antimatter doesn't annhilate with ANY matter. A positron doesn't annhilate with a proton, only an electron.

Arg.

Originally posted by Mars
New member, so please forgive this post if everyone figured this was a dead thread.

Nothing wrong with that, always nice to get some fresh blood. If you've any questions, u2u, I'd be glad to help with anything.

Anyway, what you said was basically right on target with what we talked about on this thread. I know it was a lecture, but did anyone mention any links? It's nice to have em so we can see things for ourselves.

Trust: You don't buy antimatter, that's stupid. It has no price, but if you wanna assign prices to things, I bet the Higgs is more valuable.

Wondering if you may have had chance to read David Adair's pieces re his visit to A51 and his experience back then? eg David Adair Vistor Unwilling at Area 51..

Seems to me he brings forth containment issues in a sort of advanced yet readable manner to us laymen.

Dallas

www.sfgate.com.../chronicle/archive/2004/10/04/MNGM393GPK1.DTL

You decide.

Originally posted by Dallas
Wondering if you may have had chance to read David Adair's pieces re his visit to A51 and his experience back then? eg David Adair Vistor Unwilling at Area 51..

Seems to me he brings forth containment issues in a sort of advanced yet readable manner to us laymen.

Nope. What do you mean by containment though, how does A51 relate to the topic at hand?

Anyway, yeah, the Air Force had a go at it I believe, but don't forget, the military also worked on a 'Gay' bomb. It's their job to try everything.

I am not sure if any of it was true, but on another thread I read someones post that a spacecraft using antimatter along with nuclear ions drives will have the power to go 1/4 the speed of light. If anyone could verify anything of what I just said I would be interested.

P.S. I forgot where I read this.

Thanks,