Imagine a time where humans could travel half of the speed of light. Humans could go to mars in under 10 minutes! This time is not that far away. With the new research of antimatter, scientists have found many impressive tasks we can accomplish. Even though there are many positive aspects of antimatter, many people are scared of it. This article will discuss why antimatter is a good thing and why we should be using it more. Many of people might not know what antimatter is. Antimatter is exactly like matter, but opposite. Many people still think matter is what everything on Earth is made of. With the discovery of antimatter,this common theory has been proven false. Antimatter is matter with a negative charge. A regular matter particle has
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Really, it isn't as bad as many think. At CERN (the main producer of antimatter) their storage capacity for antimatter when full couldn’t even give off as much energy as a calorie in food. As of right now, CERN could not make enough antimatter at a time to cause a big explosion. The only problem is what if CERN want to mass produce antimatter in the future and use it for various tasks? They would have to try to find a way to contain the antimatter using magnets for a longer period of time and then let the antimatter annihilate in small portions at a time. CERN could have the antimatter annihilate and power a magnet to keep the rest of the antimatter from annihilating. This would make it self sufficient and would not require other types of …show more content…
When tested, it is found that antimatter can be used as fuel. The 100% energy release of annihilation gives off a lot of power. If an effective way of containing the antimatter to use as fuel was found, travel time could be greatly reduced. “If we use antimatter as fuel, we could get to the nearest star in only two years” (RealLifeLore). This could have a huge impact on how scientists discover planets. Although they cannot do this now, they are learning about antimatter a lot and now know how to store
Really, it isn't as bad as many think. At CERN (the main producer of antimatter) their storage capacity for antimatter when full couldn’t even give off as much energy as a calorie in food. As of right now, CERN could not make enough antimatter at a time to cause a big explosion. The only problem is what if CERN want to mass produce antimatter in the future and use it for various tasks? They would have to try to find a way to contain the antimatter using magnets for a longer period of time and then let the antimatter annihilate in small portions at a time. CERN could have the antimatter annihilate and power a magnet to keep the rest of the antimatter from annihilating. This would make it self sufficient and would not require other types of …show more content…
When tested, it is found that antimatter can be used as fuel. The 100% energy release of annihilation gives off a lot of power. If an effective way of containing the antimatter to use as fuel was found, travel time could be greatly reduced. “If we use antimatter as fuel, we could get to the nearest star in only two years” (RealLifeLore). This could have a huge impact on how scientists discover planets. Although they cannot do this now, they are learning about antimatter a lot and now know how to store