Antimatter atoms produced and trapped at CERN
PWAIN
17 Nov 2010
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2010/PR22.10E.html
Sweet!
Yep, and weapons to follow......Wonderful!! </end sarcasm>
Elus
17 Nov 2010
Yep, and weapons to follow......Wonderful!! </end sarcasm>
To create an antimatter weapon, you'd need to generate much greater quantities of antimatter. It won't be happening any time soon because the energy it takes to create a sufficient quantity is a lot, I believe.
Edited by Elus, 18 November 2010 - 08:49 AM.
PWAIN
17 Nov 2010
Yep, and weapons to follow......Wonderful!! </end sarcasm>
To create an antimatter weapon, you'd need to generate much greater quantities of antimatter. It won't be happening any time soon because the energy it takes to creat a sufficient quantity is a lot, I believe.
I guess it was this bit that got me thinking this way. I do realise that it is not being deliberately designed as a beam, but it does seem like the next logical progression...
In another recent development in CERN’s antimatter programme, the ASACUSA experiment has demonstrated a new technique for producing antihydrogen atoms. In a paper soon to appear in Physical Review Letters, the collaboration reports success in producing antihydrogen in a so-called Cusp trap, an essential precursor to making a beam. ASACUSA plans to develop this technique to the point at which beams of sufficient intensity will survive for long enough to be studied.
Such a 'beam' would be an ultimate weapon, fire it at an incoming missile and it disappears (or more realistically blows up in flight). You could possibly even stop an incoming laser beam. Of course when the 'bad' guys get this tech...
mia22
20 Nov 2010
Such a 'beam' would be an ultimate weapon, fire it at an incoming missile and it disappears (or more realistically blows up in flight). You could possibly even stop an incoming laser beam. Of course when the 'bad' guys get this tech...
Neat idea but it wouldn't work. We don't live in a vacuum. It's quite the opposite.
Arcanyn
23 Nov 2010
Such a 'beam' would be an ultimate weapon, fire it at an incoming missile and it disappears (or more realistically blows up in flight). You could possibly even stop an incoming laser beam. Of course when the 'bad' guys get this tech...
Neat idea but it wouldn't work. We don't live in a vacuum. It's quite the opposite.
Yes, in reality what would happen is that the weapon would disappear in a mushroom cloud when someone attempts to fire it.
mia22
26 Nov 2010
Such a 'beam' would be an ultimate weapon, fire it at an incoming missile and it disappears (or more realistically blows up in flight). You could possibly even stop an incoming laser beam. Of course when the 'bad' guys get this tech...
Neat idea but it wouldn't work. We don't live in a vacuum. It's quite the opposite.
Yes, in reality what would happen is that the weapon would disappear in a mushroom cloud when someone attempts to fire it.
Along with that someone!
Maybe we should give it to Kim Jong Il....
A941
30 Nov 2010
Lets see when they blow up the Vatican
At the moment it may not look like a technology which could be turned in a weapon, but dont think that that will stay so.
Its an interessting Idea for Weapon-nuts like me, a weapon more powerfull than the H-Bomb, and with no lethal radiation.
Great against Alien-Invasions
