Hi Fellow Steemians !
I'm here today to tackle about Antimatter
I hope you enjoy :D

HERE WE GO !!!

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So commonly when we think of the most valuable material in the world, our minds tends to center unto Gold

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and while Gold is very expensive at a current value og $56 per gram.

there are other materials that significantly more expensive, Drugs like Heroin, Cocaine And LSD For example are the most expensive drugs in the world by sheer weight, far more valuable than gold is.

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The market value of diamond per gram is even more prohibitively expensive but even this is nothing compared to the most valuable material currently known to humanity.

THE ANTIMATTER

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So, What even isANTIMATTER ?

To put it simply Antimatter is the opposite of Regular Matter, Down at the atomic level Antimatter is made up of particles and atoms just like Regular Matter is.

The only difference is that they have a opposite electric charge Protons on Antimatter are Negative and called "Antiproton" While Electron is Possitive and called "Proton"

Whenever Antimatter and Matter touch one another they instantly annihilate each other in a 100% efficient release of energy. This pure energy Release is why Antimatter could prove to be extremely useful

The most efficient nuclear for example converts a mere 7-10% of fuel mass into energy.

While Antimatter to matter collisions release 100% of their mass into their energy.

If you somehow were carrying about 1 Gram of Antimatter about the size of a raisin and dropped it on the ground, It would create an explosion greater than both Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear explosions combined.

Easily enough to destroy an entire city, smaller scale assassination weapons and maybe more economically feasible. However,

Like the theorize Antimatter bullet which would essentially be a regular bullet but with a tiny 1 billionth of a gram of positrons attached to the tip.

Upon impact the bullet fired from a rifle would be capable of destroying an entire House, Tank or any other similar sized object .

But Antimatter has several uses aside for military ones.

Antiprotons have also been shown in several studies to have the potencial to treat certain kinds of cancers.

And Antimatter can be a fuel source for interstellar travels, it is conceivable that using Antimatter as fuel source could propel a rocket with human on board to about 50% to the speed of light which is fast enough to reach the neraest star to earth within 2 years.

So why haven't we created enough antimatter yet to do this incredible things ?

The answer is because Antimatter is incredibly rare, difficult to produce and outrageously expensive.

Antimatter is produced naturally in earths outer atmosphere when higher energy cosmic rays impact it, but the amount produce is tiny and last only briefly before comes to contact with Regular Matter and annihilate itself.

The only practical means of acquiring Antimatter so far have been to produce it artificially ourselves. But even this method is incredibly difficult and expensive

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The Large Hadron Collider operated by C.E.R.N in Switzerland for example, One of the most expensive and complicated facilities ever built is capable of producing 10 million Antiproton per minutewhen fully operational , That sounds like a lot but actually a laughable tiny amount.

To produce just a single gram of Antimatter at that rate of production it would take certain roughly 100 Billion years to complete, but production is just the first problem though.

Storing it is perhaps a larger problem. Since Antimatter annihilate matter instantly, you can't just store it in a regular container. you have to suspend the material without it coming in contact with anything.

So far CERN only succeded storing Antimatter attoms for a record 17 minutes

Safety precaution of the material and keeping it in safe hands would be to be at most importance and were not even sure how exactly we will store such a large amount in the first place.

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Wikipedia
CERN
SymetryMagazine
PhysicsOfTheUniverse

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