Is this a plausible idea? (uses antimatter).?
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Read Angels and Demons. Although the antimatter making technique is totally impractical, it just might be possible to store the stuff in a hand-grenade sized container. Magnetic suspension has already been done, although it would make a large hand grenade with current technology.\nhttp://www.levitron.com/\n\nA truly perfect vacuum really is impossible, but a near-perfect vacuum could be done. Just as long as you eliminate all the gas molecules floating around, you should be safe enough. http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae290.cfm
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Theoretically yes. Object of any mass with enough speed would create this kind of energy. if we can accelerate the 2H and O atoms to the many times the speed of light til they collide with each other.It will release massive energy.\nThis is like the idea of cold fusion.
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Hi bornsmartgal\n\nThe antimatter created in the very early universe annihilated with matter created at the same time.  When a matter particle and its antimatter counterpart meet the annihilate and produce energy (eg a collision between an electron and positron produces two back to back photons).  In the early universe there was a small over abundance of matter over antimatter (one billion and one matter particles for every one billion antimatter particles).  After the annihilation this leaves matter left over (plus a billion photons for every matter particle!)\n\nThis initial over abundance of matter over antimatter is puzzling - the difference between matter and antimatter is a reversal of charge and particle physics is largely symmetrical to charge reversal. Physicists have been looking for an asymmetry in nature which will explain the over abundance, and have finally found a few such events (called charge-parity symmetry violations).  It appears nature isn't totally symmetrical after all.\n\n\nHope this helps!\nThe Chicken
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You should watch the episode of mythbusters where they try to build a death ray with mirrors and need a focal point, they make a mirrior in a contact sorta shape and the light focases on it. if you could make a solar cell like that maybe it would work. The episode was on all weekend, it might be helpful for some other things too!
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I believe it will be possible. The first application of the development of such technology will be the transportation of mass amount of fluids, and solid materials from one place to another. Granted, these materials will probably be simple materials without complexed molecular structure but, it will be the place that other developement will continue from.\n  The technology is centries into the future if it is that soon. The general idea is simple. Breaking down atomic structure in a trasmitable format, transmitting, then reconstituting teh transmitted. It then is a matter of what atomic partical belongs on what part of the carrier wave of the radio/or microwave transmitter. Another additive to the  complexity, is actually getting the particals on the carrier wave. However, if modern modems can convert digital signals into anolog, and analog into digital signals, then other parts of a "transporter" is a matter of time.\nSide note on this: If it will require the power produced from anti-matter generators, then it should interest all that a few anti-matter atoms had been produced. It took more energy to produce those few anti-atoms then they could produce themselves, but it does illistrate that Star-Trek to Star Wars technologies are not entirely impossible.
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There are already antimatters existing in and outside our galaxy. But the ratio of antimatter to matter is rather small. More often than not, when both matter and antimatter come together, large amount of energy is release. The energy emitted is large enough to create another particle.
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When you talk of the possibilities of Matter and Anti-Matter...we already have them.\n\nProblem in lies that if you seperate matter and anti-matter and combine them to forn energy, you have to find a way to contain the energy (there is alot from a small cumbustion)  There is the problem.  So my thoughts are not yet ready for warp technology.
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mathematical dilemma. there is no answer to the question. Well at least none that are known. Just like the elements we know there out there but we have to figure them out first.  just like Einstein theory of fusion. its passable just not proved.
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Sadly, I've actually heard about this before.  I can't believe how much useless junk I put into my head...I'd say pure fiction.  Its just more likely that he was some bored computer geek trying to get some attention.  Its still unclear whether or not time travel into the past is possible.  Based on current science I'm leaning toward the impossible side.  Oh well, 2036 will be here soon enough.  Then we'll know for sure.   ;)
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Doesn't that have something to do with Einstein's e=mc^2?  It sure looks like it.  The rest of seems to be an example of an explanation of the inefficiency of practical mass to energy conversions.  I could be wrong.\n\nOh, by the way:  what are you asking?
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No. Any naturally occurring antimatter would have long since been annihilated by a corresponding matter. As for artificially generated antimatter, I believe that we have managed to isolate no more than a few thousand antiatoms. For comparison, 1 gram of hydrogen contains 6.022*10^23 atoms - the amount of antimatter we have is so small that if we were to react the entire world's supply of antimatter with an equivalent amount of matter, we would have just enough energy to create a visible spark.
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Yes, bombard it with neutrons and it will release energy...\n\nWill it be efficient.. NO. but you can do so.
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Oh boy, you stumbled on to a topic that frustrated me to no end last year.\n\nIn my personal opinion (though I don't have much of a reason to say so), the answer is no.  Last year, I thought it was because they violate the conservation of energy principle, but it turns out my logic was flawed.\n\nOne professor I talked to (a particle physicist) said he doesn't believe monopoles can exist, though I wasn't able to ask him why.  Another professor didn't state his own opinion, but he did tell me some of the evidence that monopoles could exist.  First, Maxwell's equations are practically begging to include monopoles.  If monopoles exist, there is a beautiful symmetry between the electric and magnetic Maxwell equations.\n\nAlso, if monopoles are flying through space, they should create a magnetic flux as they pass us.  My professor told me that they essentially created a super-cooled coil of wire and sat around waiting for a monopole to pass through it.  In 1982, they found exactly the signature they were looking for, seemingly verifying the existence of monopoles.  Exact evidence couldn't appear by chance, could it?  Well, as it turns out, (in my physics professor's elegent words) by a cruel trick of nature, monopoles happen to produce the exact same voltage in super-cooled wire as a "quantum glitch" (I'm not sure if that's a scientific term).  No monopoles have been detected since then and it seems unlikely that we will find them by that method without improved equipment.\n\nLastly, I asked my professor why monopoles could exist if we've never observed them.  He pointed out that I probably believe that antimatter exists even though I've never observed it.  He did a very good job of explaining why monopoles might exist.\n\nI still believe monopoles aren't out there.  Magnetism strikes me as a consequence of electricity, not a partner to it.  As for creating monopoles, I wouldn't have the slightest clue.  I would have to research some elementary particle physics.
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Do you really need help with this or are you just testing our knowledge? It's been years since I've done this, but I think it has something to do with the atomic mass/number.
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Yes and No, Since a black hole is made of particles, anti-matter could counter and destroy it, on the other hand, most believe it is an actual hole in the fabric of space/time. So can you repair it, not as of yet. 2nd an A-bomb is nothing to a black hole, so it wouldn't do much. 3rd, I've never heard of plasma being able to escape a black hole, theoretical energy, thermal energy, and certain virtual particles are the only thing I know that have been thought that could escape a black hole. 4th, Black holes can merge into 1 really big one, so they continue to live even through themselves.
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You mean quantum teleportation? I can point you to some layman's sites explaining how it works. . . Keep in mind, you are only teleporting the state of the "matter" (the experiments I am aware of only move photon states, though in principle you could apply them to electrons and protons), not the energy itself. Also, entangling macroscopic quantities of matter with some stream that could teleport its state (making a copy at the other end) is currently an intractable engineering problem.
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No, current accellerators can't support M theory, but in the near future they will, hopefully.\n\nWith reagards to faster than light travel, according to current theories, infinite force would be needed to accellerate any slower than light object to faster than light.  So we think that that would be impossible.\n\nLet's assume for a minute, though, that we could accellerate something, say an electron, faster than light.  It would cross the "time barrier" and begin to travel backwards in time.  As a particle (from rest) goes faster and faster, it's perception of time slows down.  When (and if) it hits the speed of light, time ceases to exist for it.  And when (and if again) it begins to go faster than light, it would travel backwards in time, very very fast.  As it went faster still, it would begin to travel more slowly backwards in time.\n\nAn electron travelling backwards in time, it turns out, is the same as a positron.  So to answer your question, if an electron were going faster than light, it would become a positron.  The same is true for any other particle, it will become its respective antiparticle.  Richard Feynman was the first to propose this idea.  He actually went so far as to suggest that all the electrons and positrons in the universe are actually just one single electron, travelling both forward and backwards in time a great number of times!