What didn't make sense was the gamma death ball and the destroying all life on earth and the molecule rearranging that was suggested. The energy put out by matter-antimatter annihilation is just mc^2, proportional to the mass (i.e. all mass is turned into its energy equivalent.) So for a .45 230 gr. bullet this would be 2/3 of a Hiroshima-type bomb. (earlier I forgot to take into account the mass that the bullet interacts with, not just the bullet itself, hence 2/3 instead of 1/3)FightinAggieCHL wrote:
Exactly, so see? It does make sense, if you're in to that whole anti-matter deal. I'm not sure it would be conceivable to handle and deliver an anti-matter anything. Supposedly, scientists are trying to figure out a way to use anti-matter as a source of energy, but I'm not entirely sure on how that would work either. You'd probably have to suspend it in an electromagnetic field in a vacuum to keep it from touching anything. It shouldn't be too hard, with the exception that anti-matter protons have a negative charge, so the field would have to be backwards from normal.
But alas, I give up. I would like to point out though, that antimatter interacts with ordinary matter all the time every day. Positrons are created and then annihilate with an electron and emit two 511 keV gamma rays... not exactly an earth shattering event, is it? That's much lower energy than the cosmic rays we are bombarded with continuously. I don't know about trying to use antimatter as a source of energy... I seriously doubt it could be created for less energy than it gives out.
