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If you drop antimatter will it fall up or down?
This is real world WORKING technology with real world application or the patent can be declared invalid.
Antimatter cannot be stored in a container made of ordinary matter because antimatter reacts with any matter it touches, annihilating itself and an equal amount of the container. Antimatter that is composed of charged particles can be contained by a combination of an electric field and a magnetic field in a device known as a Penning trap. This device cannot, however, contain antimatter that consists of uncharged particles, for which atomic traps are used. In particular, such a trap may use the dipole moment (electrical or magnetic) of the trapped particles; at high vacuum, the matter or antimatter particles can be trapped (suspended) and cooled with slightly off-resonant laser radiation (see, for example, magneto-optical trap and Magnetic trap). Small particles can be also suspended by just intensive optical beam in the optical tweezers.
Antimatter is said to be the most costly substance in existence, with an estimated cost of $25 billion per gram for positrons[17], and $62.5 trillion per gram for antihydrogen.[18] This is because production is difficult (only a few antiprotons are produced in reactions in particle accelerators), and because there is higher demand for the other uses of particle accelerators. According to CERN, it has cost a few hundred million Swiss Francs to produce about 1 billionth of a gram (the amount used so far for particle/antiparticle collisions).[19]
Several NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts-funded studies are exploring whether it might be possible to use magnetic scoops to collect the antimatter that occurs naturally in the Van Allen belts of Earth, and ultimately, the belts of gas giants like Jupiter, hopefully at a lower cost per gram.[20]
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
Ah, so they can store it and we know they can create it... But one question that remains unanswered is..
If you drop antimatter will it fall up or down?
Positronics Research LLC is an intellectual property research and development company in the emerging field of antimatter production, confinement and utilization.
We focus our technical expertise in the following areas:
1) Engineering devices for high-density storage of antimatter.
2) Engineering devices that convert antimatter annihilation products to useful forms of energy.
3) Performing measurements vital to the development of national defense, medical, propulsion, and space applications.
4) Basic research in symmetries, gravity, and antimatter-matter interactions.
B A C K G R O U N D
Dr. Gerald A. Smith founded the Company in 2001 and is responsible for the development of the company's core technology. He was the Principal Investigator and spokesperson for several major national and international collaborations involving university groups working at Brookhaven National Laboratory, CERN, Fermilab and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He is the author or co-author of over 300 articles published in refereed scientific journals, has presented over 200 invited papers, lectures, seminars and colloquia and holds numerous patents in advanced technologies.
Dr. Smith was responsible for the design and development of the first two portable antimatter traps, the Mark I trap developed at Penn State University and the High Performance Antimatter Trap (HiPAT). Both are currently in use at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Dr. Smith also designed two revolutionary hybrid antimatter/nuclear spacecrafts, the ICAN II and the AIMStar, which will both allow for future extremely fast and robust manned deep space missions.
Dr. Smith received his Ph.D. from Yale University after completing research in experimental particle physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He completed his M.S. in Physics from Yale University and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
C U R R E N T R E S E A R C H
Positronics Research LLC developed the world's largest (high-density) antimatter storage trap at their laboratory and recently made breakthrough physics advances in new technology for ultradense, portable and compact storage of antimatter. These advancements will permit revolutionary applications of antimatter to be realized in the near future. Novel applications for national defense and security, high-density energy storage, and breakthrough medical advances for the detection and treatment of cancer will be made possible.
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Positronics Research LLC's core business strategy is to partner with market leaders in their three strategic business areas of national defense, medicine and energy. Licenses are offered in each of the strategic areas to those who are best positioned to broadly deploy the technology solutions, bringing them more rapidly to commercialization. The Company has already established partnerships with market leaders and continues to actively pursue business relationships in order to more efficiently and effectively bring their revolutionary technologies to market.
Originally posted by Chonx
reply to post by Gools
So would this prove without doubt that the device has been tested and found to be working?
Are you saying that this proves beyond doubt that large amounts of anti matter are in existence in a lab somewhere? Cause that's pretty shocking considering no formal announcement has been made by anyone to my knowledge.
The embodiment of an invention can either be:
* Actual reduction to practice: "[R]equires that the claimed invention work for its intended purpose." Brunswick Corp. v. U.S., 34 Fed. Cl. 532, 584 (1995).
* Constructive reduction to practice: "[O]ccurs upon the filing of a patent application on the claimed invention." Brunswick Corp. v. U.S., 34 Fed. Cl. 532, 584 (1995).
* "Simultaneous conception and reduction to practice": "In some instances, such as the discovery of genes or chemicals, an inventor is unable to establish a conception until he has reduced the invention to practice through a successful experiment." The Regents of the University of California v. Synbiotics Co., 849 F.Supp. 740, 742 (S.D.Cal., 1994) (citing Amgen, Inc. v. Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., 927 F.2d 1200, 1206 (Fed. Cir. 1991)).
The court will apply this doctrine in so-called "unpredictable arts" such as biology and chemistry where the invention is a "biologically active composition of matter," also called a "bio-chemical substance."
Originally posted by Gools
Dr. Smith was responsible for the design and development of the first two portable antimatter traps, the Mark I trap developed at Penn State University and the High Performance Antimatter Trap (HiPAT). Both are currently in use at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Dr. Smith also designed two revolutionary hybrid antimatter/nuclear spacecrafts, the ICAN II and the AIMStar, which will both allow for future extremely fast and robust manned deep space missions.
Portable antimatter traps???
Two versions already in use at NASA?!?!?
... and one can conceive of traps with orders of magnitude more volume that weigh well less than 1 kg.
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
Ah, so they can store it and we know they can create it... But one question that remains unanswered is..
If you drop antimatter will it fall up or down?