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How to guarantee that a kilogram of antimatter will quickly annihilate another kilogram of matter?
What I mean is, suppose we could somehow get a kilogram of matter and contain it safely. Now lets say we want to make a bomb using this kilogram, now, we have two ways, either store another kilogram ...
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Can a neutron be created from pure energy
Is it possible to create a neutron out of pure energy, i.e. not by bringing a bunch of already-existing quarks together? (A quick calculation using E = mc2 shows the energy required would be about 1.5 ...
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Energy efficiency of antimatter producion [duplicate]
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Matter - Antimatter Reactory Practicality
Certain reactions in particle accelerators lead to production of antimatter, which can then be collected in noticeable ...
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Matter - Antimatter Reactory Practicality
With current technology, would the energy released by a matter-antimatter annihilation be more than the energy needed to created the antimatter in the first place? Would it be worth it? Just curious, ...
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What is pure energy in matter antimatter annihilation?
I used to read the term "pure energy" in the context of matter antimatter annihilation,
are them photons? is it other form of heat, are particles with mass ?
What does it refer to?
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When matter and anti-matter collide
Do they create energy? Or do they just disappear with zero energy?
If they create energy when disappearing, that means it takes energy to create them, right?
If they disappear into zero energy, ...
