Anti-matter weapons...

[Suprememessage]

have you ever thought about the weapon capabilities of anti-matter? Like for instance, how if anti-matter meets normal matter, it will produce a large ray of very active light with X-rays, which heats the air causing a similar effect to a chemical explosion. Which could be very useful. Except that it must be stored in a void (an area without matter). Anti-hydrogen is already being produced at a lab called Stern.
Although they don't use it for the purpose of war-fare, who here wants to bet the military will try to get their hands on this one way or another. As it could be very useful indeed.

Sometimes things change purposes, from their original. So this could be like the invention of the joy-stick. It went from use for controlling space craft to many other things, like use in entertainment, and normal flight control. This could be a similar outcome for anti-matter, except it changes from a tool for research and medicine (Anti-matter is used in hospitals to treat patients with diseases like cancer) to a tool of war. Since the machine in stern known as Alpha can already produce anti-hydrogen. It may be a likely outcome, if machines like alpha are created to produce anti-matter for the purpose of war.

Discuss.

[TrueLAD]

At 8/13/11 11:19 AM, Suprememessage wrote: have you ever thought about the weapon capabilities of anti-matter?

My thoughts never tend to go that deep.

If they did, I probably would've contributed more to this thread.

[066pop]

I don't know about using it in weapons, but it would make great "now you see it, now you don't" magic tricks :P

[Chdonga]

At 8/13/11 11:19 AM, Suprememessage wrote: Anti-matter is used in hospitals to treat patients with diseases like cancer

Does that really work?

[Suprememessage]

At 8/13/11 11:23 AM, Chdonga wrote:

At 8/13/11 11:19 AM, Suprememessage wrote: Anti-matter is used in hospitals to treat patients with diseases like cancer

Does that really work?

Yes, but not for curing it. Anti-matter is very useful for machines in hospitals that help patients with things like cancer.

[Iamsofuckingcool]

OP has a tiny penis.

[Suprememessage]

At 8/13/11 11:28 AM, Iamsofuckingcool wrote: OP has a tiny penis.

That doesn't have anything to do with this thread, and I do not.

[Erty]

I am well aware of using anti-matter in warfare, and there has been developed anti-matter weapons for a long time now. Although not using anti-elements, they use anti-particles, like positrons (anti-electrons).

On that note, positrons are used medically as well, in PETs (Positron emission tomography).

Using a beam of anti-particles, such anti-matter weapons can be highly deadly. As the beam is just a few particles wide, it is almost impossible to detect without getting in harms way.
If the military all over the world started developing weapons utilizing the anti-matter technology we already have, wars would only become more terrifying and interesting.

[pyromaniac616]

I would say that the containment would be difficult but feasible, but realistically it would never happen.

The only real way to get antimatter is to create it in particle accelerators, and they cost so much to run, and produce such little antimatter, that you would need to spend many trillions of pounds/dollars just to get a 1/10 of a gram, which could do some damage, but very little.

[Erty]

At 8/13/11 12:08 PM, pyromaniac616 wrote: I would say that the containment would be difficult but feasible, but realistically it would never happen.

The only real way to get antimatter is to create it in particle accelerators, and they cost so much to run, and produce such little antimatter, that you would need to spend many trillions of pounds/dollars just to get a 1/10 of a gram, which could do some damage, but very little.

Actually, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory uses a highly intense laser aimed at a thin piece of gold to produce more than 100 billion positrons per short pulse. Though, I am aware that you're referring to anti-protons which is harder to produce than positrons.

[GristlyBear]

To do what OP was talking about, you'd need massive amounts of anti-matter. At CERN (just last November), they managed to create "38 atoms of anti-hydrogen... for one sixth of a second".
In other words, it's so expensive to create these in the first place, so little is created, and that little amount can't be sustained.
The best part is that they used the energy they made to heat some coffee.

[Suprememessage]

At 8/13/11 12:08 PM, pyromaniac616 wrote: I would say that the containment would be difficult but feasible, but realistically it would never happen.

The only real way to get antimatter is to create it in particle accelerators, and they cost so much to run, and produce such little antimatter, that you would need to spend many trillions of pounds/dollars just to get a 1/10 of a gram, which could do some damage, but very little.

Cern already has some in contaimnent, in its ground state. So they do have anti-matter in containment

[StrapOnFetus]

So far we can only harvest, mabye 1 billionth of a pica gram of antimatter. At current, antimatter is the most expensive subsistence in the world.

In order to keep antimatter steady, we need to make Turing traps. Which keeps the antimatter from annihilating, via magnetic confinement.

Recently, we have discovered antimatter being produced in the atmosphere, via magnetic and severe electrical storms.

Wouldn't it be cool if we could capture that somehow.

[Gimmick]

At 8/13/11 12:44 PM, StrapOnFetus wrote: Wouldn't it be cool if we could capture that somehow.

It would, all the antimatter readymade for us, no need to work more on our part!

[ifureadthisdie]

If even a teaspoon of anti matter collides with matter the energy released from it will be catastrophic!

I don't know lol

[MrPercie]

fucking all this normal matter, anti matter and dark matter talk is making me hungry