Make Your Own Fusion Reactor

If we produced it in large quantities we'd blow our world out of existance. I don't think we can be trusted with such godly power yet. Antimatter bombs would make nuclear bombs look like m80s.

Really? That's interesting, I've never heard that before. Why would splitting (or fusing?) an anti-nucleus (?) cause such a massive reaction? Are large enough anti-particles even known? I thought the only one we've created is antihydrogen?

An antimatter bomb is a device which mixes anti-matter with matter to cause a massive release of energy. E=mc²; the energy released by mixing 1g of matter with 1g of antimatter, destroying both is 1.8x10^14 Joules, or 49930843 killowatt-hours to use units easier to relate to.

I see. That's pretty interesting.

Yeah, how would such a device even exist though? This isn't Star Trek where we have "anti-matter containers."

If you keep the anti-electrons and anti-protons separate, they can be contained in a simple capacitive bottle.

And I suppose that's... easy?

And I suppose that's... easy?

We currently store anti-matter in a HUGE (and by huge I mean football fields in diamter) circular tube. They speed around it in a vacuum(sp? I never can spell it). E=MC^2 like WW said. C=the speed of light which is an amazingly huge number ...now squaring that adds insult to the injury. Let's say we had 50 pounds of that shit ...boom! =D.

Anyways, antimatter is the most powerful method we have right now to approach the speed of light, isn't it? I was watching a show on space propulsion and it said that antimatter explosions could possibly send ships at half of the speed of light. Now I'd like to see the ship that could take that kind of force and survive, though =P.

We currently store anti-matter in a HUGE (and by huge I mean football fields in diamter) circular tube. They speed around it in a vacuum(sp? I never can spell it). E=MC^2 like WW said. C=the speed of light which is an amazingly huge number ...now squaring that adds insult to the injury. Let's say we had 50 pounds of that shit ...boom! =D. Anyways, antimatter is the most powerful method we have right now to approach the speed of light, isn't it? I was watching a show on space propulsion and it said that antimatter explosions could possibly send ships at half of the speed of light. Now I'd like to see the ship that could take that kind of force and survive, though =P.

That sounds horribly wrong to me.

And I suppose that's... easy?

I think it depends entirely on the antiparticle being stored, as it relates to electrical charge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penning_trap

Gives an example, to a degree.