What is Antimatter?
Antimatter refers to sub-atomic particles having the properties opposite to normal sub-atomic particles of matter.
where does it exist? what we will deduce to date from a careful examination of the evidence. for every basic particle of matter, there exists an antiparticle with the identical mass, but the other electrical phenomenon. The charged electron, for instance, encompasses a charged antiparticle called the positron. The moment a particle and its antiparticle move together, they both disappear, just in a very flash, because of the annihilation process which transforms the mass into energy.
can we create antimatter?
Antimatter is produced in many experiments at CERN. In collisions in Hadron Collider, the antiparticles produced can not be caught due to their high energy - they annihilate harmlessly within the detectors. However, the Antiproton Decelerator at CERN produces much slower antiprotons that may be trapped. Making it the most expensive material within the world.
How much does it cost to create Antimatter?
In 2006, Gerald Smith estimated that it would cost around $250 million to provide 10 milligrams of positrons; in 1999, NASA gave a figure of $62.5 trillion per gram of anti-hydrogen.
How much Antimatter is there within the universe?
Well, Antimatter created together with the matter with explosion and as we all know on contacting with matter it annihilates and both particles destroy one another releasing an enormous amount of energy, hence we are saying that no antimatter is left within the universe. But some Astronomical observations show that positron(the antiparticle of the electron) particles are travelling within the space colliding electrons and Annihilating, so where do these positrons come from ?!
what is antimatter used for?
Antimatter is employed in medicine.
PET (positron emission tomography) uses positrons to provide high-resolution images of the body. Positron-emitting radioactive isotopes are attached to chemical substances like glucose that are used naturally by the body.
Can I Buy Antimatter?
If you in the least u want to shop for, you would like to shop for it from physical science laboratory like CERN or Fermilab, which I doubt might sell it to you. These labs make antimatter in small quantities and have a special storage system to contain them. you can not handle antimatter just the way you handle the matter.
How much Antimatter has been created?
Humans have created only a small amount of antimatter.
All of the antiprotons created at Fermilab's Tevatron scientific instrument add up to only 15 nanograms. and are made at CERN adds upto 1 nanogram. At DESY in Germany, approximately 2 nanograms of positrons are produced to this point.
What can 1 gram of Antimatter do?
It may well be accustomed to release lots of energy. it'd annihilate a gram of matter and release 180 trillion Joules (50 million kWh) of energy. ... So a gram of antimatter may well be used as a weapon of mass destruction.
Note - Remember that nowhere yet antimatter is created without producing matter particles, so we can only create matter and antimatter in the same amount they Annihilate
before we stabilize them, hence it becomes the most complicated and costliest process.
but wait it doesn't end here...
- If the matter and Antimatter created in the same amount during Bigbang then why do we exist..?!
- The amount of antimatter would annihilate the amount of matter, where does the matter around us come from?
- What makes this Universe?
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