hi everyone i hope this helps, did some research and found the info,
anti matter does exist and for a long time, i did some research and its reliable:
-1.)Does antimatter exist?
Yes, it does, and we make it routinely at CERN. Antimatter was predicted by P.A.M. Dirac's theory of quantum mechanics in 1928 and antiparticles were found soon after by Carl Anderson. CERN is not the only research institute to produce and study antimatter.
-2.)How is antimatter contained?
With very great difficulty. It annihilates completely when it touches any normal matter. There are two cases:
Case 1: If an antiparticle is electrically neutral then electric and magnetic fields have no hold on it at all. Therefore, there is no easy way to contain neutral antimatter particles, i.e. no way to keep them away from the normal-matter walls of the vessel in which they are. They therefore almost immediately come into contact with normal matter and annihilate.
Case 2: For electrically charged antimatter particles such as positrons (antielectrons) and antiprotons we know how to use "electromagnetic bottles" to contain them. However: like charges repel each other. So it is not possible to put a large quantity of antiprotons together because the repulsive forces between them soon become too strong for the fields that hold them away from the walls. And you cannot put a mixture of positive antielectrons and negative antiprotons together, because they will make antihydrogen, which is neutral and we are in case 1 again.
-3)So only very minute quantities can be contained.
-4)What are the future uses of antimatter?
Antielectrons, or positrons, are already used in PET scanners in medicine (Positron-Emission Tomography = PET).
Other uses are in studying the laws of nature, as we do at CERN. The team of the PS210 experiment at the Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR) at CERN made the first antihydrogen atoms in 1996. Then, in 2002 experiments managed to produce tens of thousands of antihydrogen atoms, a sufficient number to study this gas in its antimatter form. However, although "tens of thousands" may sound a lot, it's really a very very small amount. You would need 10'000'000'000'000'000'000 times that amount to have enough antihydrogen gas to fill a toy balloon! If we could somehow store our daily production, it would take us 25'000'000 billion years to fill the balloon. The universe has only been around for 13.7 billion years...
-5)Can we hope to use antimatter as a source of energy?
-6)Do you feel antimatter could power vehicles in the future, or would it just be used for major power sources?
There is no possibility to use antimatter as energy "source". Unlike solar energy, coal or oil, antimatter does not occur in nature: we have to make every particle at the expense of much more energy than it can give back during annihilation.
You might imagine antimatter as a possible temporary storage medium for energy, much like you store electricity in rechargeable batteries. The process of charging the battery is reversible with relatively small loss. Still, it takes more energy to charge the battery than what you get back out of it. For antimatter the loss factors are so enormous that it will never be practical.
If we could assemble all the antimatter we've ever made at CERN and annihilate it with matter, we would have enough energy to light a single electric light bulb for a few minutes.
-7)Can we make antimatter bombs?
There is no possibility to make antimatter bombs for the same reason you cannot use it to store energy: we can't accumulate enough of it at high enough density.
Sociological note: scientists realised that the atom bomb was a real possibility many years before one was actually built and exploded, and then the public was totally surprised and amazed. The antimatter bomb on the other hand has been imagined by the public who wants to know more about it, yet we have known for a very long time that it's not at all a practical device...
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Anti-Matter
by choosing life ini am not a physics major, in fact, i avoided it like the plague in college.
so maybe someone on here can answer a question that i have.
i recently read that in switzerland there is a group of scientists that work on research, kind of like a think tank.
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by choosing life ini am not a physics major, in fact, i avoided it like the plague in college.
so maybe someone on here can answer a question that i have.
i recently read that in switzerland there is a group of scientists that work on research, kind of like a think tank.
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the building is in geneva known as CERN, yes from what my husband tells me its built underground, where all the best scientists in the world are and i believe they have created anti-matter as a new energy source, but its not very stable yet or they trying to figure how to control it, imagine no nuclear waste and lots of energy!
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"At my age, all I can do is THINK about it.
Warlock"
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jH and Warlock it that all you think about...
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Castro - If he dies - then what?
by AK - Jeff inhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070116/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/spain_cuba_castro.
castro reportedly in 'grave' condition.
by mar roman, associated press writer1 hour, 5 minutes ago .
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WHAT ! I thought he was already ( i mean dead). Its always these freeks that holds on the longest!
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Petition To Make Refusal of Blood on Religious Grounds Illegal
by Kenneson inin montreal, canada in late dec. jean-claude lavoie refused a blood transfusion and died.
his decision has split his family apart--the father respecting his son's decision.
his brother, jonathan, a former jehovah's witness has since launched an internet campaign calling on the government to make it illegal for a person to refuse blood transfusions on religious grounds.
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John W. Gardner
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." -
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Did you ever get one of these?
by purplesofa ini was looking for something today and ran across this list.
a po passed these out in service meeting....many years ago.
(you can tell as no mention of internet is there) i do remember seeing this and feeling overwhelmed just reading it.
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Become a more submissive wife, showing more respect.
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Jehovahs witness men who trade old wives in for new....
by candidlynuts inhow prevalent was this in your area?
jw man in good standing, elders, ministerial servants, all levels, i have seen them trade off their old wife and marry a younger woman.
they might get df'd for a year or so but eventually return and get all their priveleges back , only difference is they have a new woman on their arm.. the old wife usually has to move to another kingdom hall or accept the new couple being in her face all the time.
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WOW... even elders go through mid-life crisis, out with the old, in with the new (wink)
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Petition To Make Refusal of Blood on Religious Grounds Illegal
by Kenneson inin montreal, canada in late dec. jean-claude lavoie refused a blood transfusion and died.
his decision has split his family apart--the father respecting his son's decision.
his brother, jonathan, a former jehovah's witness has since launched an internet campaign calling on the government to make it illegal for a person to refuse blood transfusions on religious grounds.
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"one which upholds freedom of religion to an extent."
but that would not be freedom of religion, we FORGET so easily how we felt when we were still "in", ready to fight and stand up for the so called "truth", even though the dubs are brainwashed,we were too once apon a time!
Fighting THE EXTREME (meaning them) with an extreme law is not going to solve anything.IMO we would make them more motivated and they would just probably end up saying "yes the end is very near"