we do.steelie34 wrote:
we dont even understand gravity, let alone anti-matter.dayarath wrote:
Well when hawking was wrong and some micro black hole does suddenly come into existance, we're thoroughly fucked - unless anti matter works. That's our last hope.RoosterCantrell wrote:
The splitting of the atom was pretty revolutionary. This may reveal free energy, or summin really good to save us from the energy crisis. But if it blows the shit out of all of us, well, I just hope it's quick. It would suck to survive hours, or days as the earth shook, or continents collapsed in on a growing hole where the LHC once was. THAT would suck.
I was told that when the biblical end comes, it will be by fire. Could said fire be some experiment that went whoopsy? Not that I entirely believe in a biblical end, but i still wonder..
Antimatter = positron, positron is a positively charged elektron.
An elektron has a mass of 0 (this is in comparison to neutrons and protons, the mass is so small we just make it 0.) and they are charged with a charge of -1.
Positrons, are exactly the opposite of an elektron, they too have a mass of 0 and, instead, a charge of +1.
Now what happens when a positron gets in touch with something else? Seeing as every particle in our universe (except for positrons themselves) have elektrons, loaded with -1 - a positron / elektron collision is quite the disaster.
When a positron gets in touch with an elektron the charges of -1 and +1 get togheter, meaning you get a charge of 0.
Now, when that happens you suddenly get an object with a mass of 0, and a charge of 0. This object is a gamma ray. Every single particle that comes in touch with a positron will be decomposed and transferred into gamma rays. (for example, you fly a plane into a cloud of positrons - the plane will 'dissolve' and be transferred into gamma rays. That's all that'll be left of it.
We know how to artificially create a positron, and we even discovered a whole cloud of these things in space (thanks to space being vacuum, there's nothing a positron can get in touch with - however once it gets in touch with other celestial bodies it will turn them into gamma rays.)
So what we need is this tube to be vacuum with the black hole in it. Pour in alot of positrons, and the black hole will hopefully be transferred into gamma rays. That is, if the black hole is composed out of objects with matter.
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