It just wouldn't be fueled by a pure antimatter explosion. There's a slim possibility we could build a sort of antimatter bomb. In the 1966 Batman film, the villains are punched into "antimatter" by Batman and Robin after being rehydrated from their powder forms. If it shifts the wrong way, if it isn't contained by the magnets and kept stable, the antimatter will come in contact with the sides of the container and will annihilate…well, whoever happens to be carrying it at the time.
The next issue you'd run into is containment.
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According to Landua, a gram of antimatter would cost approximately a "million billion dollars."īut let's imagine a situation where antimatter was free and abundant. So yes, antimatter would be stronger than other explosives, but not quite as catastrophic as some sources indicate.Įven if it were possible to produce antimatter at a faster rate, the cost would be enormous. So as Landua's commentary illustrates, unsurprisingly, an antimatter bomb isn't as spectacular as science fiction makes it seem. For comparison, one pound of antimatter is equivalent to around 19 megatons of TNT. In the Star Trek episode "Obsession," one ounce of antimatter reacting with matter is enough to blow up half the atmosphere of an Earth-sized planet. Even if that exploded on your fingertip it would be no more dangerous than lighting a match."
"If you add up all the antimatter we have made in more than 30 years of antimatter physics here at CERN, and if you were very generous, you might get 10 billionths of a gram.
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