Large Hadron Collider (LHC) creates and traps Antimatter.

[Jaffar]

I agree it's impossible with current technology, but that's not to say it's theoretically impossible. I agree with you that it's probably a long way off though.

 

[Dirk]

If you took the total amount of all the Antimatter ever created in artificial conditions, and then utilised it in a matter/antimatter anihilation, you would have..... basically nothing. The amount we have produced in half a century is insignificant.

Perhaps given a thousand years we'd have enough to start a small fire with?

 

[Domo]

Don't we use antimatter already? Positrons?

Gamma rays, emitted indirectly by a positron-emitting radionuclide (tracer), are detected in positron emission tomography (PET) scanners used in hospitals. PET scanners create detailed three-dimensional images of metabolic activity within the human body

Src: Wikipedia

 

[Spook187]

I think it's a load of rubbish.

1. It's impossible to harness anti-matter, even if we could it would disappear in a billionth of a second.

2. 1 gram of anti-matter if it where to come into contact with matter would create more energy than the Russian Tsar nuclear bomb.

3. Although the above in number 2 is true, it would take longer than the existence of the universe to create 1g of anti-matter.


BBC Horizon is where it's at.

Why do you say that in no 1,why do you think they have the collider,i wish people would stop saying its impossible to do this and that,so its impossible to even think how we humans ever came to exsist in the first place

 

[Narj]

Lester Knight Chaykin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_World_(video_game)

*sheds a tear*

Ahhh memories of my Amiga.... :'/

 

[Limpnoodle]

Theres a live feed of the lhc here

http://www.lhc-live.com/

 

[ins0mn1ac]

Theres a live feed of the lhc here

http://www.lhc-live.com/

awesomes.

 

[Angst]

Theres a live feed of the lhc here

http://www.lhc-live.com/

 

[Emphacy]

Why do you say that in no 1,why do you think they have the collider,i wish people would stop saying its impossible to do this and that,so its impossible to even think how we humans ever came to exsist in the first place

But it is impossible to harness anti-matter with our current technology.
I'm confused by your post. The hadron collider was never built to attempt to harness or produce anti-matter at all, just because it's discovered its minute existence doesn't mean we can harness it.

Maybe in the future we will be able to harness it, but face it, we're a pretty long way off. It literally pops into existence for a billionth of a second before disappearing only when we smash two protons together.

 

[Destination]

This has nothing to do with the large hadron collider :|

Yes it does... it says so in the title

 

[DAnDan]

But it is impossible to harness anti-matter with our current technology.
I'm confused by your post. The hadron collider was never built to attempt to harness or produce anti-matter at all, just because it's discovered its minute existence doesn't mean we can harness it.

Maybe in the future we will be able to harness it, but face it, we're a pretty long way off. It literally pops into existence for a billionth of a second before disappearing only when we smash two protons together.

Where do you suppose we get this future technology from then, if we don't research if from the information beginning to be gathered here?

 

[Emphacy]

Where do you suppose we get this future technology from then, if we don't research if from the information beginning to be gathered here?

What are you talking about? I'm not saying we shouldn't do any research on it, or look into it or anything.

I'm saying WE SIMPLY CAN NOT HARNESS ANTI-MATTER at this current moment in time.

Why is this so hard to understand?

 

[DAnDan]

What are you talking about? I'm not saying we shouldn't do any research on it, or look into it or anything.

I'm saying WE SIMPLY CAN NOT HARNESS ANTI-MATTER at this current moment in time.

Why is this so hard to understand?

I think it's a load of rubbish.

1. It's impossible to harness anti-matter, even if we could it would disappear in a billionth of a second.

Because you said this.

 

[SourChipmunk]

What are you talking about? I'm not saying we shouldn't do any research on it, or look into it or anything.

I'm saying WE SIMPLY CAN NOT HARNESS ANTI-MATTER at this current moment in time.

Why is this so hard to understand?

I'm guessing you didn't even bother reading the OP. Heck, you didn't even have to read the linked articles. It was in the OP!

 

[Emphacy]

I'm guessing you didn't even bother reading the OP. Heck, you didn't even have to read the linked articles. It was in the OP!

Yes, and I think it's rubbish, like I said in my first post.

 

[Irish_Tom]

I think it's a load of rubbish.

1. It's impossible to harness anti-matter, even if we could it would disappear in a billionth of a second.

2. 1 gram of anti-matter if it where to come into contact with matter would create more energy than the Russian Tsar nuclear bomb.

3. Although the above in number 2 is true, it would take longer than the existence of the universe to create 1g of anti-matter.

BBC Horizon is where it's at.

+ a few other posts

If it's so impossible, how have they managed to do it for 16 minutes already?

Only a year ago it was n/th of a second, now it's 1,000 seconds. Who knows what they will be able to do it five or ten years time.

We may not be able to use it right now, but this is a significant step towards that goal.

*Edit*

Yes, and I think it's rubbish, like I said in my first post.

So you're saying you just don't believe them?