What would happen if you launched anti-matter at the sun?
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No wormholes. Just a big boom. A big, EXPENSIVE boom.
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Eric Jaffe-Magnetic Thrust: Fields force matter into black holes\n\nLike a child scared to dive into a pool, cosmic matter needs one last push to plunge into a black hole. New observations confirm that magnetic fields provide this final galactic shove. \n\n The observations come from a system in the Milky Way called GRO J1655-40, which consists of a black hole and a normal star. Gas from the star is pulled toward the black hole, where it forms what's called an accretion disk. Angular momentum—the same property that keeps Earth from diving into the sun—keeps the disk revolving around the black hole instead of falling into it. \n\nUnless something knocked them off course, the gases in the disk would continue to circle the black hole forever. "To get matter in toward the black hole, we have to change the orbits in the disk," says study leader Jon Miller of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Until now, scientists weren't sure whether magnetic fields, radiation pressure, or heat alter the orbit and trigger that fall. \n\nUsing NASA's Chandra satellite observatory, Miller's team collected data on X rays emitted from the J1655 system. They found that the X rays came from a wind blowing from the disk, so some force must propel the wind past the black hole's gravitational pull. After simulating the wind on a computer, the researchers conclude that only magnetic fields could create such a force, they report in the June 22 Nature. \n\nThe team had ruled out a wind fueled by heat from the core of the disk or by pressure from radiation blasting out of the disk. A heat-driven wind would have been hotter than the one that the researchers observed, and radiation pressure is too weak to drive that wind. \n\n"Magnetic pressure really was the only viable means remaining," Miller says. \n\nSuch pressure could upset the gas disk's orbit in two ways. The magnetic fields could push the wind outward like a spring, or the force of the spinning disk could fling the wind away from the disk's center. Either disruption of the disk's orbit would cause some matter to spiral downward. \n\nMiller's team appears to prefer the first scenario, says Roger Blandford of Stanford University. Blandford prefers the second, which he describes as an organized magnetic slingshot. "I suspect there are different answers in different types of systems," he says. "But on the face of it, this looks like a big advance observationally." \n\nThough most astrophysicists expected magnetic fields to play a role in black holes, the finding is "very important evidence that what we thought before makes sense," says Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. "It's the first time there's clear evidence for wind coming off an accretion disk." \n\nThe finding could help astrophysicists understand the complex give-and-take between galaxies and black holes,
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solar rays could do that
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Yes - it would.  But the likelihood is the other way around - the sun is more likely to get hotter and hotter - then explode into a supernova.
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Anti matter is negative version of matter.To differentiate the matter and antimatter we consider the atomic levels of matter.Our own matter is made with atom of centraly proton of positive charge & charge less neutron called nucleus.And a negative charged electrons revolving around it.But in antimatter nucleus is  negative charged proton(anti proton)& electron of positive charge (anti electron) revolving around it.\nI think that matter and antimatter repell each other,have a negative gravitation.
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Propulsion Techniques Anti-matter\n\nAnti-matter is explosive stuff! In a scientific sense, it is the opposite of the normal matter which comprises both us and our surroundings. Every type of particle in nature is thought to possess its own anti-particle – which will have the opposite charge to the particle itself. Originally theorised to exist by scientists in the first half of the 20th century, the fact that a matter/anti-matter reaction releases a hundred times more energy (per mass of fuel) than even the most powerful nuclear reaction quickly brought it to the attention of the science-fiction genre. “Star Trek” is probably the most obvious example of the basic use of anti-matter in science fiction. Star ships of the Federation use stores of anti-matter as their source of fuel, so that their ships are powered by a matter/anti-matter reaction. \n\nSometimes the use of anti-matter was as straightforward as being the ultimate rocket fuel, for example in the anti-matter rocket starships in Peter F. Hamilton's “The Nightsdawn Trilogy” (1990s). On other occasions, anti-matter has been viewed as the natural successor to nuclear reactors as the source of power of the future, a prime example being the “Starship Enterprise” from the 1960s television show “Star Trek” (not to mention its sequel series and film spin-offs). The “Enterprise” contained a central reactor core which powered the entire ship in which matter and anti-matter were mixed, releasing enough energy to boldly go where no-one had gone before! \n\nSome science-fiction authors have even asked what-if questions about anti-matter. In the book “Traces”, Stephen Baxter explores the idea that anti-matter might exist in space as large chunks of “anti-ice”, which could be mined and mixed with large volumes of normal water to provide, in the case of the story in question, an awful lot of steam power.
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If you had the antimatter and could control it, yes any energy releasinig reaction could power a vehicle.  Antimatter exists, but not in any useful quantities in nature.  Most of what we know of antimatter is from studying the tiny (and by tiny I mean nanograms) amounts we've made in various particle accelerators.  You would also need to overcome the storage implications - seeing as matter and antimatter annihilate upon contact releasing energy, the antimatter could never touch its containment unit.  This is usually done by keeping the antimatter in a helix unit stored as close to 0 K as possible, in a very powerful magnetic field to keep it in the center of the unit.  \n\nThe other implications you would have to overcome is to harness the energy it released for practical application.  When matter and antimatter annihilate they release a gamma wave, which will pass through most materials without even interacting with them.  You would need to capture this, and convert it to heat, and from there you could convert the heat to mechanical motion.  \n\nIf it were a spacecraft and you didnt need to worry about the radiation left behind, you could use the energy produced to accelerate particles which would act as your thrust (similar to an ion drive).
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It doesn't. Only when it comes in contact with "regular" matter does it produce energy.\n\nAntimatter functions exactly like "normal" matter except everything is the opposite. When matter and antimatter touch each other, they release an amazing amount of energy (waaay more than nuclear fusion) and a slew of subatomic particles.
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I would say false.  The gravitational pull of the sun would pull it to it's doom.
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Scientists think that, at some point in the very distant future, all of the mass in the universe will be dominated by four or five supermassive black holes.  At first glance, this doesn't square with the second law of thermodynamics (since that's a rather low entropy state), so someone postulated that there would be such a thing as a lighthole which would re-emit everything that fell into a black hole.\n\nThat was utter nonsense.\n\nStephen Hawking put his brain to work on this problem, and solved it in a day.  He realized that, as predicted by Einstein's famous equation, gravitational fields can spontaneously create pairs of particles (one being normal matter, and the other being anti-matter).  Under normal circumstances, the matter-anti-matter pair would annihilate, but if the pair forms on the event horizon of a black hole, one of the particles would be drawn into the black hole, while the other would be emitted into space.  By doing this, the black hole has expended some of its gravity, and therefore its mass.\n\nThe answer to the conundrum is that Black Holes are slowly evaporating through this process, and we've named it the Hawking radiation, accordingly.  If the Universe is ever dominated by a handful of supermassive black holes, that won't violate the Second Law of thermodynamics since they're slowly falling apart anyhow.\n\nThere is no need for a white hole to exist, nor is there any observational evidence even suggesting that they might.
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There is no fire on the sun.  Our star is converting hydrogen into helium (which is nuclear fusion and thus creates heat) because it is so massive that the atoms its made from are being compressed by its own gravity.\n\nEventually, it will run out of fuel and stop "burning" all together, becoming a white dwarf, then a black one.\n\nLarger stars will explode and disperse their materials (the things you and I are made of) across the universe.  The largest will become black holes and try to fix the mess created by the others.
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The result is there for all of us to see. The stars and other celestial objects are the result of many such nuclear reactions. The sun is a big fusion reactor. Beginning with the lightest elements like helium and hydrogen the process of fusion gives rise to heavier and heavier elements. Some times stars are overcome by their own mass and implode to become a black hole or explode as a supernova releasing enormous amounts of matter and energy into space. In comparison the worlds biggest nuclear bomb will appear like a pop-gun. Will the sun implode or explode. Luckily  - no. But over time it will swell into what is called a red giant, swallowing Mercury and Venus. But I think by the time that happens we would have colonised Mars!
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Time is completely relative.  It bends with the curvature of space.  Space is the absence of matter and is what separates matter from matter and matter from anti-matter.  Anti-matter is the opposite of matter and is responsible for anomalies like black holes and is believed to be the center of galaxies.  Anti-matter and matter form energy when they combine.  So far as we can tell, it looks like a giant flash of light when this occurs.\n\nTo answer your question:\nWhen time is removed from the equation, everything comes to a standstill.  It would be the same if you took away energy.  There would be nothing but stuff standing motionless.  When space is removed from the equation, all matter and anti matter are combined and as a result, pure energy is given off as a byproduct.  If matter is removed from the picture, the only thing that would be left is anti matter, space and energy.  Everything would be dark because there wouldn't be anything to give off light, but there would still be gravitational forces at work.
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As with all stars, the sun is producing energy by nuclear fusion.  The process involves several steps, but it boils down to combining the nuclei of 4 (four) hydrogen atoms (basically 4 protons) to form a single nucleus of helium (2 protons and 2 neutrons bound together).  Several other particles come out--a couple of positrons (like electrons, but with positive charge), a couple of neutrinos (tinier than electrons and not charged), and gamma rays (very high-energy radiation).  The positrons almost immediatley react with electrons and annihilate (like Star Trek--real matter/anti-matter reaction) to form additional gamma rays.  The energy of the gamma rays are eventually absorbed a few thousand miles below the sun's surface, heating the gas there and causing it to "boil".  At the sun's surface, this "boiling gas" releases it's energy like bubbles in the form of radiation of all different energies, mostly in the visible range, producing the light (and heat and UV for suntans and more) that travels through space to the Earth and beyond.
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I don't know what everyone else here is on but we've had fusion (hydrogen) weapons for decades. Fusion weapons are capable of destroying planets as there is no real limit to how powerful they can be. There are more powerful alternatives however. Matter-Antimatter reactions can be made vastly more powerful then fusion reactions since the masses are completely transformed into energy whereas only a small portion of mass is converted into energy in fusion reactions. The problem of course is that anti-matter is annihilated upon exposure to any matter so storing it is the biggest problem in making such an idea practical and it would probably never make it to bomb form let alone the problems people have making 1/1000th of a milligram of the stuff for any sustained period.
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Your body would be pulled in every direction, though not really "exploding", that's a pretty good approximation of what would happen. If that didn't happen & you had oxygen, you would freeze to death. Or you would die from radiation(which is what would happen with the spacesuit, making the moon landing a farce).\n\nSpace kills, man.
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Basically, it has to do with opposites. Every particle of matter has an opposite particle of antimatter. When these two come in contact, they annihilate eachother.\n\nIf every particle of matter were to find it's specific particle of antimatter, the universe would cease to exist. Theoretically.