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Originally posted by woahimapro
What exactly is anti-matter? And how exactly do scientists produce it? It is a good theory, but how would you have anti-matter powered items if when anti-matter contacted matter it would explode?
Originally posted by Shadow88
(Scientiffy information bit) Scientists have stated tht wen the "big bang" occured when an large amount of matter came into contat with an amount of antimatter.
- the reason they didnt simply cancel each other out scientists believe that there was less antimatter to matter, so some matter survived, creating the universe we know today - important!
NOW, as you may have heard scientists have recently been able to produce antimatter. if we ARE able to mass produce antimatter it would probably be THE most important advancement in sci/tech.
FACT - Scientists at the CERN facility calculated that an amount of antimatter the size of a 50 pence coin (medium bottle cap sized for all you non-british) would create an explosion the size of a hum-V car.
Now what were to happen if the entire world, each family, had antimatter powered cars, houses, lights, antimatter powered toasters even. What were to happen if they all went KABOOM???
Now the likelyhood of them all turning off at the same time is next to nothing...but it only takes one to explode...and mucho explodo chain reaction?
So finally my question - will this giant amount of antimatter cause an explosion so large that it will cause the the destruction of the universe?
[edit on 31-3-2005 by Shadow88]
Originally posted by Jakko
The big bang is just as inexplainable as Creation of the universe by God.
It's not even a theory...
Originally posted by iceofspades
Please elaborate; why is the big bang not a theory?
So finally my question - will this giant amount of antimatter cause an explosion so large that it will cause the the destruction of the universe?