Large Hadron Collider (LHC) creates and traps Antimatter.

Hairybudda said:
This has nothing to do with the large hadron collider :|
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lol yeh i was just about to type that. CERN has been creating antimatter from before the LHC was completed. you can even buy some if you want... but it is the most expensive thing ever. i think anti protons are a few trillion a gram (cant be bothered to find out) and only last a few seconds and have to be kept in a near perfect vacuum. Too make anti hydrogen which they did more recently they managed to combine an anti proton and anti electron in a near perfect vacuum using magnetic fields to stop the antimatter touching any matter. this doesn't require a particle accelerator.
 
Its only a matter of time before that French computer game becomes reality, the one where the scientist pops in for some late night colliding experimentation and before you know it his in another reality.

Cannot remember the name and it was played on my Amiga.

:)

Anti-matter in reply to your question is the exact opposite to the matter we know. A coventional atom is made up of a neutron and proton nucleus with an orbiting electron, anti-matter has a nucleus consisting of an electron and neutron and an orbiting proton. Thats the theory anyway as I understand it and if you combined a gram of each the resulting energy release would be in the magnitude of Hiroshima.
 
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Terminel said:
Anti-matter in reply to your question is the exact opposite to the matter we know. A coventional atom is made up of a neutron and proton nucleus with an orbiting electron, anti-matter has a nucleus consisting of an electron and neutron and an orbiting proton. Thats the theory anyway as I understand it and if you combined a gram of each the resulting energy release would be in the magnitude of Hiroshima.
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Not quite :)

Each particle has it's antimatter version. The antihydrogen atom is a positron orbiting an antiproton.

The energy release would follow E=mc^2 with c being the speed of light, so you are right that a gram of matter being annihilated would be a very large bang :D
 
Oxy said:
What is the point of holding the antimatter?

What does it do?
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Ah but that's thing, we don't know, but this is the forefront of physics. There's so much to learn from it.

In terms of how it's useful to us is again, something we don't know yet. Lots of inventions or discoveries were made years or decades before they affected everybody.

But literally, I don't know what is the point of holding antimatter. I'm not sure in terms of physics what it means.
 
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Again, nice effort by the OP to explain the issue in terms of his own comprehension and what he considers it to mean in reference to its relevant field of influence. Also, some mention of Vulkans. You've done well by yourself, here.

ProTip: If you can't be bothered to type more than a link and half a sentence of blather, it's not worth its own thread.
 
Deadbeat said:
Again, nice effort by the OP to explain the issue in terms of his own comprehension and what he considers it to mean in reference to its relevant field of influence. Also, some mention of Vulkans. You've done well by yourself, here.

ProTip: If you can't be bothered to type more than a link and half a sentence of blather, it's not worth its own thread.
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Certainly more constructive than your post noob
 
I think its a massive breakthrough, holding it at temps much higher than near absolute zero is the next step, once thats done, antimatter power stations yes please, MUCH more power than nuclear power.
 
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