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How could iron man's arc reactor work I know there is matter antimatter energy but that would be almost impossible?
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His reactor is based off of extreme voltage fusion. you take extremely high amounts of energy and concentrate it on one tiny area of matter. slowly you convert matter to energy and power is generated. in Iron Man's case he used palladium (I don't really know what palladium has to do with this).
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How do you artificially create antimatter?
when energy travelling at the speed of light (its possible to reach that speed with a single particle) comes in contact with something, it can reach up to extreme temperatures and the energy can be converted into matter. when this happens, both matter and anti matter is born.. pairs so matter got created by energy smashing into stuff, like other energy or matter, basicly, there is the same amount of matter and antimatter because they are created in pairs.
What do Antimatter bombs do?
Well, although I don't think they have managed to construct one yet, i do know what they are intending to do... this bomb contains a sealed container with no matter inside, just anti matter inside a vacuum, the antimatter hovers above an electronic flow of energy so the antimatter doesn't fall and hit one of the walls of the container. keep in mind the antimatter is a small speck, now, when the bomb is set to go off, this electron flow stops and the antimatter is let to fall to the bottom of the container where in comes in contact with matter, they go through a process called annihilation where the both matters convert into a mass amount of energy, which is the deadly huge radiant explosion that will occur. The effect would be similar to an atomic bomb put the explosion would be much larger for the amount of material and there would be little to no radioactive fallout. Such a device would release more than three times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb for each gram of antimatter present.
What could antimatter be used for?
In theory, antimatter could be used as an extremely concentrated form of fuel, to run power plants, to propel rockets, or anything else that requires fuel. However, it is extremely difficult to store, requiring special magnetic containment since any contact with matter causes a big explosion. Unless some efficient solution is found for the storage problem, I doubt that antimatter will ever be used for much other than research into subatomic physics.
How can antimatter be stored?
I'm trying to find out more about this. I know that when antimatter comes in contact with regular matter, the particles annihilate each other; and, there must be a huge expenditure of energy. I know that one gram of antimatter dropped in a ton of water can propel a spaceship to Pluto in one week (3.7 billion miles). According to Einstein's work, three grams (about a "penny") when converted to energy (E=Mc2 means matter is stored energy and vice versa) can bring to boil, 320 Olympic size swimming pools. Based on my reading of physics books as a fledgling science fiction writer, I say antimatter is stored in magnetic bottles, sort of like a thermos. The magnetism would keep the particles free from contact and in an orderly spin. The bottle, I imagine, must have a perfect vacuum.
Can you use liquid nitrogen to freeze antimatter?
Most antimatter exists as subatomic particles produced either in radioactive decay or large particle accelerators. No significant quantities have been made and the only antimatter atoms ever produced have been antihydrogen. Any antimatter that came in contact with liquid nitrogen would annihilate both itself and part of a nitrogen atom, releasing energy that would heat the remaining liquid nitrogen. If you could somehow produce a quantity of antimatter equal the the amount of liquid nitrogen, when they came in contact instead of cooling the antimatter there would be total annihilation of both materials resulting in an explosion on the order of teratons of TNT equivalent as the temperature of the products jumped to hundreds of millions of degrees kelvin to billions of degrees kelvin!!!!!
What single scientific invention do you think now is most important?
the nuclear reactor and antimatter wich we can get almost infinite energy
What is the power output of the anti-matter reactor?
This question presupposes the existence of an antimatter reactor. As far as I know, no such reactor exists, or has even been designed. Antimatter reacts with matter to produce energy with virtually no matter remaining. Such a reaction is thousands of times more powerful as nuclear reactions we have used on this planet. But antimatter is difficult to make and nearly impossible to handle. As soon as it touches anything, it is gone. There is a lovely quote from a researcher who has made antimatter often. He said that if all the antimatter made at CERN were put together and reacted with matter, the resulting energy would power a light bulb for a few seconds. This even though it is the most powerful reaction we know of. There just is not enough of it to react usefully.
What are the advantages of using antimatter?
Currently antimatter is only used for scientific research as it is very expensive to obtain. In the future antimatter could be used for anything that requires energy such as producing electricity.
What is the energy transfer in a nuclear reactor?
the controlled release of nuclear energy in a reactor is accomplished
Is it true that by touching antimatter man converts into antimatter?
No. If ordinary matter touches antimatter both are annihilated and turned into pure energy. The amount of energy released would be enormous. Using Einstein's E=mc2 we find that contact with even a few grams of antimatter would generate an explosion comparable in magnitude to the detonation of an atomic bomb.
Somebody told your friend that if an antimatter alien ever set foot upon the Earth the whole world would explode into pure radiant energy?
This has some truth in it. When antimatter and matter collide, they change into energy, so the world could in theory be destroyed. Antimatter-matter collisions produce huge amounts of energy.
What is the theory of creation of matter and antimatter from nothing?
You are giving the definition for the Big Bang Theory.
If an astronaut landed on a planet made of antimatter there would be an explosion and what?
The matter of the astronaut causes the antimatter to anhilate each other, creating energy close to the energy produced by the equation E=mc2.
What is the efficiency of antimatter?
As much as 50% of energy produced in reactions between nucleons and antinucleons is carried away by neutrinos in these applications. It is theoretically possible to retain as much as 100% of the energy in an Antimatter reaction.
Is anything more expensive than antimatter at 62.5 billion dollars?
well, i think yes. Antimatter is produced when high energy particles collides like when cosmic rays impacts with the earth's atmosphere. Antimatter will immediately annihilate when it comes in contact with matter so it's almost impossible to collect. But antiparticles can be created artificially in the cyclotrons like in the ATHENA project at CERN. another challenging problem is how to store antimatter, the Penning Trap (used for charged particles) and the atomic trap(used for uncharged particles) are specialized device to store antimatter. running the CERN is costing billions of dollars. estimations points to 62.5 trillion dollars to produce 1 gram of antimatter. so far, i think it would be the most expensive substance ever made.
Why cant thorium be used as energy to power up individual homes?
Thorium is not a fissile material. And for fissile materials - is impossible to have a nuclear reactor in each home.
What fuel gives off the most energy if 1 gram was burned?
Antimatter.
