Interstellar space travel, here we come!
To: SunkenCiv; blam
3 posted on
11/18/2008 1:33:13 PM PST by
Kevmo
(Palin/Hunter 2012)
To: LibWhacker
To: LibWhacker
Is this the mysterious and unexpected production of possibly dark matter they just got at Livermore? Doesn’t sound like it.
5 posted on
11/18/2008 1:37:58 PM PST by
RightWhale
(Exxon Suxx)
To: LibWhacker
To: LibWhacker
What about power generation on Earth?
8 posted on
11/18/2008 1:42:48 PM PST by
Hoosier-Daddy
("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: LibWhacker
This is much cooler than the Scotch tape, x-ray thingy.
9 posted on
11/18/2008 1:44:08 PM PST by
wolfcreek
(I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
To: LibWhacker
Pair production (electron-positron) is a well-understood phenomenon. I used positrons from a 22Na source as a probe for condensed matter microstructure way back in the bad old days of being a physics grad student. Making the heavier antiparticles is the the real trick. Usually the energy cost is ruinous. I think Fermilab will sell you a nanogram of anti-hydrogen for a few million dollars, all nicely entrained in a magnetic vacuum trap.
13 posted on
11/18/2008 1:53:41 PM PST by
chimera
To: LibWhacker
Interstellar space travel, here we come!Not without those dilithium crystals!
14 posted on
11/18/2008 2:01:06 PM PST by
JimRed
("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: LibWhacker
Are positrons what allowed the creation of Positraction?
15 posted on
11/18/2008 2:03:54 PM PST by
B Knotts
(ConservatismCentral.com)
To: LibWhacker
20 posted on
11/18/2008 11:07:39 PM PST by
onedoug
To: LibWhacker
And to think that some people claim that there’s never anything positive in the news these days.
21 posted on
11/18/2008 11:10:27 PM PST by
Redcloak
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: LibWhacker
I assume that the energy required to create these positrons is greater than the energy release if/when these same positrons are annihilated, right? So as an energy source on earth, this is not going to work.
I can only think of a scenario where this antimatter is used as a fuel for future spacecraft, because it would be roughly (1000x1000) one million? times more efficient in terms of bang for the gram over chemical rockets. It would still would be extraordinarily complicated and probably not worth it overall. But one can dream.
22 posted on
11/19/2008 9:18:18 AM PST by
Paradox
(When the left have no one to villainize, they'll turn on each other.)
To: LibWhacker
As long as they don't produce billions of Megatrons!
24 posted on
11/19/2008 9:55:59 AM PST by
uglybiker
(1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d 2 g3t l41d)
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