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The thing is you would need an equal amount of antimatter particles to the amount of matter particles to make a perfect annihilation. Antimatter is extremely hard to create and maintain, and we're talking about trapping individual particles here. If you want a really inefficient weapon to destroy a couple dozen protons, then yeah antimatter could be a possible weapon :)

MikeG, why do you criticize, and then prove yourself wrong? Even in the comments of the article you linked to, it supports what I've said. And the personal attacks aren't necessary, pal. I'm an intern at the Princeton Plasma Physics lab. Not exactly antimatter, but I've had a fair amount of background in the subject before working on plasma fusion reactions. What do you do for a living?

Antimatter + Matter = Energy. That much is extremely obvious, as I've already said that they produce high levels of radiation and photons. They disappear afterwards in the physical sense, something else that I made clear. But there aren't any BOMBS that are made of light and radiation. There's no explosive force to be harnessed, no reactions taking place. If anything, a huge amount of positrons placed in our atmosphere would simply cause a vacuum and an inhabitable place for a while with all the gamma radiation.

I'll rephrase it once again. Antimatter does produce output, but only in the form of LIGHT and RADIATION. It would never be an "efficient source of energy," do you have any idea how much funding and electricity it takes to even produce a teeny amount of positrons? They don't just catch these things in the wild, they make and isolate them first. And that's extremely intensive to do and maintain in the first place, let alone capture them and put them in the fuel tank of some vehicle and feed them into a reaction chamber ten by ten (re: impossible).

@ DickHardKnocks

Matter annihilation does release energy, but not in the form that could be harnessed for any really conventional means.

When antimatter comes in contact with matter, the two eliminate each other and release a mixture of photons and gamma rays (if the magnitude is high enough). Photons just give off light, and gamma rays are harmful radiation. Unless you had solar panels lining the walls of the chamber, or some way to convert gamma rays into useable energy, then antimatter collisions couldn't really be used to initiate any weapons.

I assume this is a serious question?

Antimatter has nothing to do with "evil." In fact, you can't blow anything up with it either. When an antimatter particle comes in contact with its normal opposite, the two simply cancel each other out. There is no explosion, they simply cease to exist. Antimatter studies have tons of applications as well.

You may have heard of particle accelerators, such as the one in Chicago and CERN currently being built in Europe. They accelerate particles and smash them together and see the elementary particles that are produced (quarks, gluons, etc.) and this helps us understand our universe better. (I know it sounds outlandish but it really has lead to a lot of advancements in physics) Antimatter consists of the majority of studies being done in particle smashing right now, since its relatively new compared to study of ordinary protons. Plus, newer accelerators are using antimatter to do the actual monitoring of the particles that come out.

A "bomb" of antimatter would never EVER be feasible on any scale. First of all, there's the whole problem that I explained above how it doesn't blow up, it simply makes something cease to exist on a very VERY small scale. Also, the efforts laboratories have to go through just to obtain antimatter is tremendous. To obtain just a couple hundred positrons (antimatter protons), it could take up to hundreds of hours of work and tons of funding, and then if there's a slight jogging of the equipment the positrons could hit the side of their magnetic holding chamber and all disappear.

I hope I answered your questions, and don't knock antimatter! They're one of the newly discovered keys to learning more about our universe.

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