Posted: 11/17/2010 9:36:09 AM EDT
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Just heard on BBC radio that scientists have captured antimatter for the first time. Normally matter and antimatter annihilate each other. If matter can't be created or destroyed, what happens to the matter and antimatter when they collide?
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Just heard on BBC radio that scientists have captured antimatter for the first time. Normally matter and antimatter annihilate each other. If matter can't be created or destroyed, what happens to the matter and antimatter when they collide? It turns to energy. |
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Just heard on BBC radio that scientists have captured antimatter for the first time. Normally matter and antimatter annihilate each other. If matter can't be created or destroyed, what happens to the matter and antimatter when they collide? It turns to energy. ALOT of energy.... -ZA |
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Just heard on BBC radio that scientists have captured antimatter for the first time. Normally matter and antimatter annihilate each other. If matter can't be created or destroyed, what happens to the matter and antimatter when they collide? It turns to energy. ALOT of energy.... -ZA 
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Just heard on BBC radio that scientists have captured antimatter for the first time. Normally matter and antimatter annihilate each other. If matter can't be created or destroyed, what happens to the matter and antimatter when they collide? It turns to energy. ALOT of energy.... -ZA Yes. 90000000000000000 m^2s^-2 is a big number. |
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You'll end up with some real matter, too.
When it's all over (in a few microseconds) you'll have photons, neutrinos, electrons and protons/neutrons. The specific ratio/mix depends on the energy of the particles before they kaboom. It takes 1,000 MeV to make a proton or an antiproton, so even at rest, you'll get 2,000 MeV out of the reaction. But very quickly you'll end up with plain ol' stable particles like you experience every day. excepting the high energy photons or neutrinos, of which a gabillion have passed through you while you read this message. |