Quantum Pahysics

^^ so your saying we are all a source for a ton of energy? like i meen a penny size amount of antimatter could run your car for like 40 billion miles.
 
wait wait, if it's anti matter, doesn't that mean there would be no matter to be had from it?

like, you wouldn't be able to make it into a penny sized anything, since it's the opposite of matter... or am i missunderstanding?
 
no, antimatter is the antiparticle (such as photon) of matter. when an antiparticle and a particle comes into contact, it creates a short burst of energy. someone correct me if i'm wrong, i only took one physics and one chem class many years ago
 
^^ ya u kinda have it. im not even gonna try to explain it tho you just gotta search it and read about it. its fuckin nuts. like there is a lab in conneticut or something thats been trying to make it for 20 years and they have made like less than a gram in 20 years or something. they use these 40 acre long circle things and run matter and shit through them i dont even know its nuts tho.
 
Antimatter is when matter's charge is changed (positron, antiproton). It is forme in a collision with such force that the matter's charge is inverse. Then, if it collides with matter, the release of energie is so strong, they anhilate each other
 
correct and you could use that energy to power things such as cars spaceships or whatever needs energy but the hard part is collecting antimatter cause its basiclyh impossible
 
I bet they can get this done in the next ten years, a stable form of antimatter that we can use to run cars, airplanes, etc.. It'd be soooo expensive at first
 
Not the quantum part.

Anti-Matter is like if you have a sound wave, and you play the exact opposite sound wave, they cancel each other out, and there is no sound. Anti-matter is the exact opposite of matter, meaning that thier could be an antimatter you. There are theories of complete antimatter galaxies that could exist out there.

The trouble with creating anti-matter in a lab is that if you are to store it, it has to be in a vacuum with no contact with real matter. SO, it cannot touch the sides of the container.

In the beggining of time, 'nothing' was divided into matter and anti-matter. For some reason (they don't know) some anti-matter spontaneously changed to matter. The rest annihalted back out and what we are left with is the spontaneously changed antimatter, which is what we are made out of.
 
Yes the quantum part. I was in AP physics so we covered all physics. And as of yet anti-matter is a physical impropability.
 
okay well not for most grade 11 physics classes then. Physical improbability on earth, where we are surrounded by matter, not in space.
 
this guy knows what he is talkin about. yes anti matter has to be in a vacuumed tube and cannot touch the walls this is why it makes it so hard to contain it. they say the universe was the size of a marble then in 1 trilla trillasecond or something amazing like that it expanded to what it is now. there is as an intergalactic speed limit i believe like 198,000 miles per hour because if something in space reaches that speed or more it will have become so large that its size is infinate and would take up the whole entire universe.
 
antimatter has been created on earth. It has 100 percent effeiciency of matter conversion into energy while nuclear is about 5 percent. It could easily supply all earths power without any polution. the ony problem is that if it touches anything thats matter including air it ignnites and a drop is much more powerful than a nuclear bomb
 
antimatter was created at CERN in switzerland, its not to hard to store in a vacuumed container with a magnetic field so it does not touch the walls
 
I know nothing about antimatter (always been more of a political person) but that sounds awfully a lot like the plot line of Angels and Demons (the Dan Brown book).

Anyways, the video still baffled me. I liked the "WHAT? AN INTERFERENCE PATTERN!!!" The fact that an electron would be aware of itself is pretty... fucked (for lack of a better word).
 
Stable is the key word here. I mean we are messing with things that might have possibly created the universe. There is some danger to be had for converting these to energy of everyday use.
 
so what really is antimatter and how do we make it. and some kid said using a magnetic field to keep them in, but um, that would also require charges to repel, which would mean that antimatter has electrons and such which makes no sense.
 
haha wow, reading all the misinformation and wikipedia paraphrasing in here has been quite entertaining. Thanks
 
i find it funny that people are finding out about science from some quasi-religious fiction book, but i have to admit without that book you guys wouldnt be half as interested
 
Man the only people who know what they are talking about are the people who are saying that your all full of shit.
 
No. Im saying you dont know anything about it. My first hint would be that the creator of this thread spelled physics "pahysics". Anitmatter is realy but it is extreamly hard to create and even harder to store. You have to slam millions of particles at near light speed into a barrier to create just one atom of antimatter hydrogen. It will never (at least in our life time) be a source of energy and the only way we will ever use it is if someone tells us how.
 
and so i take it you know something about it... and that you spell all your words correctly 100% of the time when typing...
 
I know a little about it. Not very much, no one does. And I suck at spelling however when I make a tread I usually check the spelling of the title you clever little twat.
 
and yea the fact that a penny sized amount of anti matter could run a car forever isn't really showing a lot about anti matter. If a cars engine and wheels etc etc were all 100% efficient a car could run on one drop of gasoline until it rusted to shit.

now there's some science 9 for ya
 
i didn't realize that there were so many quantum physics experts on this site with an average age of 15 years old. if you don't know shit, don't go and research and post what you find to act smart. thats lame.
 
Ok, word from a 3rd year physics major. Anti-Matter is real. Anti matter is crazy. Anti matter is perfect energy E=mc^2. Will it power things in our lifetime? Most likely not. BUT we thought the same thing about fusion, and over the last 20 years fusion reactors have been getting more and more efficient, to the point of where they are actually producing more power than is put in. Until we find a way to produce Anitmatter using less energy, and a way to store it safely, it is not a real possibility.

Anyways read about Fusion, its more realistic.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/28/europe/web.0628iter.php

And that Dan Brown book was a little unrealistic. He wouldnt be able to escape an antimatter explosion by jumping out of a helicopter. And survive the fall? C'mon...artistic license
 
if you want to learn or even see something about quntums, watch the movie "what the bleep tdo we know" this is a movie that is hard to watch because its just tooooo deep.
 
That Video had absolutly nothing to do with antimatter! It was refering to the rection of electrons with an observer. It goes back to Einsteins ideas that matter does not exist unless there is an observer, with blows most peoples minds including myself. There is not one refference to antimatter in that clip.
 
are you talking about the speed of light? that would be close to 198,000 miles per second, not per hour. I'm not sure about the expanding to infinite size part either, can anybody second that? Cause I've never heard about that... And the universe was nowhere near the size of a marble right before the "big bang" or what the hell it's called nowadays...
 
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