A list of the seven most expensive substances on Earth.
Can we even contain it? Afaik, it’s destroyed basically the instant it is created because there’s regular matter everywhere.
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.
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
Nearly as expensive as printer ink.
“Your printer has detected 3rd party antimatter. Please only refill with Genuine HP™ AntiMatter cartridges. Authorities have been notified and are enroute to your residence.”
Starts printing Anti-Authorities
Stop posting my wish fulfillment, it’s distracting. 😂
Anti-Authorities save lives instead of take them.
nah, they’ll just let you print antimatter ink on matter paper, and then claim that the explosion was your fault for counterfeiting
Does antimatter have mass?
That’s a good question. Maybe it has antimass?
That was a hypothesis until just recently, where they measured it and found that it has regular mass.
It doesn’t, but if it did that’d explain why there isn’t much of it around.
Unfortunately not. Antimatter isn’t anti gravity.
yes, its the same as normal, its just the “Spin of the particles that are opposite”, if you get down deeper, the quarks are opposite.
Yes
The reason why it’s called antimatter is because the polarity of the nucleus and electrons are reversed. There are also antineutrons that have a neutral charge. It all still has mass, but will obliterate upon contact with regular matter
There are also anti neutrons that have a neutral charge
Expanding onto this, it raises the question: how is a neutron different to an anti-neutron?
A neutron can be though of a particle composed of 2 down and 1 up quarks and lot of gluon’s that keep everything together. The gluon is its own antiparticle, so the antineutron has 2 anti-down quarks, 1 anti-up quarks and gluons. This way it becomes a different particle despite also being of neutral charge.
That’s not even buying it; you’re renting it by the nanosecond.
It’s a subscription model for the artificial stuff. The natural version is dirt cheap. It’s always the middle man with these modern services, I tell you.
Adobe Antimatter
Given the technology to create and store antimatter in quantities exceeding a handful of atoms doesn’t exist, it’s a bit ridiculous to extrapolate a price per gram for it.
Shouldn’t it cost -$60 trillion?
New infinite money glitch unlocked!
Does it even have mass like that?
Edit: should have just kept scrolling https://sopuli.xyz/comment/15894538
Atoms are made-up by Big Small so they can sell you more less!
Ooh! You card read good!
a handful of atoms would be a lot of atoms!
Per mole?
I thought it was HP inkjet printer cartridges? I think that’s around $60 trillion per gram, isn’t it?
That’s so stupid: You can make antimatter at home for tree fiddy. Just buy a bunch of bananas and wait for the potassium to decay into positrons. EZ
Tree fid- WAIT THIS AINT NO SCIENCE MAN ITS THE GOD DAMN LOCH NESS MONSTER
This leads to a modified version of the uncertainty principle: either you have a banana and can know the size of something or you have positrons and are unable to measure size.
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 thought element 118 was like $60 quadrillion a gram because they only manged to make like 3 atoms of it.
. . .
Another problem that be fixed with scale.
Really more of an anti-substance, ain’t it?
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.
no you wont trick me. its printer ink…
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?
What kind of question is that?
Sorry, I guess?
ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
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.
