Old but cool

http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2002/split/605-1.html

Anti-H atoms announce their presence when they drift out of the trap region and annihilate with ordinary atoms in a sort of double suicide. The antiproton perishes when it meets a regular proton, resulting in the creation of a few pi mesons detected in silicon microstrips, a process which points to the annihilation vertex with a precision of 4 mm.

You know what that means?

Go sharpen a mencil intul the tip is really really sharp, i mean poke yourself make you bleed sharp. Now look at the tip. It has roughly 1billion atoms going the across the top.

Now, when an antimatter atom and a regular atom explode when they touch each other, they evidently create a large enough release of energy that is expandes 4mm!

Now think about how many tips of your pencil it would take to make a single millimetter. Id guess somewhere around 8 at least?

So one mm is roughly 8 billion atoms across or even more.

So in other words the destructive power of these anti matter atoms is 32billion times itself. O_O Thinkof the bomb you could make with them crackers!

[Sabres]

wtf?

[Chacal]

Thanks for the pointer. Interesting article.
Thanks also for your explanation. It's completely wrong but entertaining!

Originally posted by Chacal
Thanks for the pointer. Interesting article.
Thanks also for your explanation. It's completely wrong but entertaining!

The radius has to be at least 4mm is that is as far away as it can be when detected. It's not like you can see atoms with any size of microscope.

And whenever atoms are taken apart or put together, they give off allot of energy.

So it would only make sense that anti-matter would also give off energy. And they are both destroyed, wouldn't all the energy in both be emited?

No energy geiven off=undetectable.

So for 1 atom and 1 antimater atom to give off anough energy to be detectable by 4mm it has to be allot of energy!

[cavalierlwt]

I'm no scientist but I'll take shot. Doesn't a vertex mean a single point, ie, location. Sounds like the anhilation vertex is where the two particles cancelled each other out. The resulting Pi mesons indicate where this vertex is, plus or minus 4MMs.

[Tommy Boy]

Originally posted by Chacal
Thanks for the pointer. Interesting article.
Thanks also for your explanation. It's completely wrong but entertaining!

I'd take Dilithiem Crystals any day.

Originally posted by Tommy Boy
:rotflmao:

And I suppose the magical underwear faries just MOVE the particles 4mm away? Riiiight.

[SkiloDog2000]

anti matter=protons(negative), neutrons(neutral), electrons(positive). am i wrong?

Originally posted by SkiloDog2000
anti matter=protons(negative), neutrons(neutral), electrons(positive). am i wrong?

I beleave so.

[Sabres]

protons are positive and electrons are negative

That is why I said he was wrong!

uhm... interesting........

[Chacal]

Perhaps Skilo meant that in anti-matter polarities are reversed. As usual I couldn't make sense of Skilo's post so I didn't reply .

[SkiloDog2000]

thats what i meant chacal, thank you for the clerification