A list of the seven most expensive substances on Earth.
With a gram of antimatter, you can probably blow a city-sized crater into Earth, so yes, 60 trillion seems like a fair price.
Edit: oh, it’s only 21 kilotons. The stuff is overpriced. :)
I could snort 5 grams in one weekend, so yeah, overpriced.
My Lord, the commoners mustn’t see you so
I thought it was HP inkjet printer cartridges? I think that’s around $60 trillion per gram, isn’t it?
I should think about selling some of mine.
Why do people post things like this? And who cares? It doesn’t matter; it antimatters.
This is just an irresponsible post.
Be careful putting matter and antimatter so close in a sentence.
You’ll kill us all.
I bet it gets you way high
From the velocity imparted by the explosion, yes
Ridiculous! Tariffs on antimatter now!
1 gram of antimatter stored? Forget the explosion—imagine the insurance premium on that thing.
Why do you write like an AI?
I don’t know what to tell you buddy, because AI are trained on how people write on the internet?
More important question, why do you think like one?
Sorry, I guess?
What kind of question is that?
ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
no you wont trick me. its printer ink…
Can we even contain it? Afaik, it’s destroyed basically the instant it is created because there’s regular matter everywhere.
Fun fact; the standard model actually allows for spontaneous particle-antiparticle pair generation, so long as the pair mutually annihilate within some hbar defined time limit and conservation laws aren’t broken at a macro scale. This is the mechanism behind hawking radiation too; some of the energy given off by black holes is caused by spontaneous pair generation that happens such that one of the pair is created beyond the event horizon and the other member is created before the event horizon, causing one to be trapped and the other to be jettisoned into space.
I know that doesn’t really relate to your comment about containing antimatter but I counter with the following: I’m profoundly autistic and the standard model has been a special interest of mine before. I couldn’t resist the chance to infodump a bit
That’s fucking cooooool
It can be contained using magnetic fields, that has been possible since 2010: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2010/11/17/antimatter-atoms/
Scientists are even preparing to transport it in the near future: https://glassalmanac.com/why-scientists-are-transporting-antimatter-in-a-van-uncover-the-reasons/
That’s the opening scene of an X-Files episode for sure.
If u r buying dm me, i got a connect
You’re paying way too much for antimatter, man. Who’s your antimatter guy?
That will be a nice addition to my periodic elements collection.
Antimatter is metal?
Typically when people refer to antimatter they’re talking about anti-hydrogen. Theoretically you can have any anti-element, as far as I know
By itself no, but you could form metals from antimatter.
Just wait until we start having it manufactured in a cheap labor market. The prices will plummet! It’ll likely be mostly fake, but that’s the price we pay for cheap antimatter.
Really more of an anti-substance, ain’t it?
I thought element 118 was like $60 quadrillion a gram because they only manged to make like 3 atoms of it.
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Another problem that be fixed with scale.
Ah, that’s why we haven’t used it in weapons yet.
I figured because any amount of usedul antimatter annihilateing causes gamma rays that cook the planet, but $60T makes it a bit more prohibitive
That’s just the price to get it.
The burn rate of storing it would be similarly astronomical, but reoccurring, cost.
And I can’t even imagine the cost of transporting it
Yeah, I usually only buy a couple of grams at a time.
