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To: 2harddrive

The Antimatter would have to be enclosed in a magnetic bottle, with a vacuum around it, to keep regular matter away, until it was ready for detonation, of course.


5 posted on 07/15/2009 7:59:58 PM PDT by 2harddrive (then)
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To: 2harddrive
The Antimatter would have to be enclosed in a magnetic bottle, with a vacuum around it, to keep regular matter away, until it was ready for detonation, of course.

Nah...

When I was a kid (1960s) I designed an anti-matter spacecraft that simply stacked two particle accelerators (the round kind) on top of each other: one produced a certain stream of particles and the other produced the appropriate anti-matter stream of particles. The two accelerators would simultaneously throw their carefully calibrated streams of matter and anti-matter into a chamber where the resulting collisions would produce the violent explosions necessary to become a propellant force.

In other words, there is never any need to store anti-matter - - it is created and used as needed.

I must have doodled 200 versions of this craft.

9 posted on 07/15/2009 8:31:49 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: 2harddrive
Something like this from the movie 'Angels & Demons'?


11 posted on 07/16/2009 3:23:32 AM PDT by wastedyears (The Tree is thirsty and the hogs are hungry.)
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