Anti-matter weapons question???

What are anti matter weapons and do they exist? i need some links that explain the principles on which they work.

Try putting it in to ATS search function. It works wonders, More words you use the better.

www.godfox.com...


heres a link i found....

hope this helps alittle, as i dont know much about them lol

while that link does give a general idea on the possible uses of anti-matter weapons, it should be noted it's for a fictional universe so don't take seriously it's implications that they exist.

Does weaponry using anti-matter matter?

*egads*

Seriously... how many different ways shall we think of to kill somebody? What, we need a cleaner and more effective way?! Depleted uranium rounds or teflon coated flachettes aren't good enough? Stop wasting money on sound powered diarreha inducing ray guns for god's sake...

You know, if the same level of attention... if the same amount of funds... were used to examing peace, the world would be soooo much better; not in space, though, not with our anti-gravity electro-magnetic impulse lasar satelites... just the world.

Person that made last post I think anti matter studies are well worth it, yes they can cause great damage, but if learned to control they could be used for power. like nuclear power, once it was just for weaponry but now it can power ship, and create electricity.

This threrad should be locked... there is already athread about anti mater right below this one!

Jesus Christ people...

Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear
yes they can cause great damage, like nuclear power, but now it can create electricity.

So why is it the military over-rides the peaceful application? That's my point entirely... we have to kill untold thousands of people before we can do something useful.

Anti-particles are, literally, mirror images of normal matter. Each anti-particle has the same mass as its corresponding particle, but the electrical charges are reversed.

When antimatter comes into contact with normal matter, these equal but opposite particles collide to produce an explosion emitting pure radiation, which travels out of the point of the explosion at the speed of light. Both particles that created the explosion are completely annihilated, leaving behind other subatomic particles. The explosion that occurs when antimatter and matter interact transfers the entire mass of both objects into energy.

So if you took Anti-Hydrogen + Hydrogen = BOOM. Something like a kilogram of anti-hydrogen would be able to produce a 46MT explosin. But you have to take two of the same anti and normal particles for it to work. I dont think Anti-Oxygen and normal Hydrogen will react the same way.

We dont have anti-matter reactors or bombs yet because there is a lack of antimatter existing for us to use. We cant really make any great amounts of it yet that I know of. High-energy particle accelerators only produce one or two picograms of antiprotons each year. A picogram is a trillionth of a gram. All of the antiprotons produced at CERN in one year would be enough to light a 100-watt electric light bulb for three seconds

science.howstuffworks.com...

Originally posted by SpittinCobra
Try putting it in to ATS search function. It works wonders, More words you use the better.

Originally posted by Solarity
This threrad should be locked... there is already athread about anti mater right below this one!

Absolutely correct. The thread The Power Of Antimatter is still an ongoing discussion. Please continue this discussion on that thread. Thanks.

[edit on 10-10-2004 by dbates]