The 7 most expensive substances ever found on planet Earth | BBC Science Focus Magazine
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Silver, gold, platinum… palladium? Pah! When it comes to the really precious materials, you’d be surprised by what fetches the highest prices.
  • LostXOR@fedia.io
    11 months

    Given the technology to create and store antimatter in quantities exceeding a handful of atoms doesn’t exist, it’s a bit ridiculous to extrapolate a price per gram for it.

    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 months

      “Your printer has detected 3rd party antimatter. Please only refill with Genuine HP™ AntiMatter cartridges. Authorities have been notified and are enroute to your residence.”

      • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
        11 months

        Planes have to stop at the equator so everyone can get their matter jars ready to switch before they convert naturally

        • cenzorrll@lemmy.caEnglish
          11 months

          Ackshually, the plane is the matter jar. It’s just super uncomfortable for the passengers if the pilot doesn’t get the maneuver just right in the air, so they land and do it there instead. Sometimes they’ll fly along the equator and do it slowly if they’re going across the Pacific, e.g. USA -> Australia, instead of USA -> Chile

    • MudMan@fedia.io
      11 months

      It’s a subscription model for the artificial stuff. The natural version is dirt cheap. It’s always the middle man with these modern services, I tell you.

  • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
    11 months

    Why do people post things like this? And who cares? It doesn’t matter; it antimatters.

    • stembolts@programming.devEnglish
      11 months

      This is just an irresponsible post.

      Be careful putting matter and antimatter so close in a sentence.

      You’ll kill us all.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      11 months

      The reason why it’s called antimatter is because the polarity of the nucleus and electrons are reversed. There are also antineutrons that have a neutral charge. It all still has mass, but will obliterate upon contact with regular matter

      • Danitos@reddthat.comEnglish
        11 months

        There are also anti neutrons that have a neutral charge

        Expanding onto this, it raises the question: how is a neutron different to an anti-neutron?

        A neutron can be though of a particle composed of 2 down and 1 up quarks and lot of gluon’s that keep everything together. The gluon is its own antiparticle, so the antineutron has 2 anti-down quarks, 1 anti-up quarks and gluons. This way it becomes a different particle despite also being of neutral charge.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      11 months

      yes, its the same as normal, its just the “Spin of the particles that are opposite”, if you get down deeper, the quarks are opposite.

    • Quilotoa@lemmy.caEnglish
      11 months

      That’s a good question. Maybe it has antimass?

  • spicystraw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 months

    1 gram of antimatter stored? Forget the explosion—imagine the insurance premium on that thing.

  • yarr@feddit.nlEnglish
    11 months

    I thought it was HP inkjet printer cartridges? I think that’s around $60 trillion per gram, isn’t it?

  • dogslayeggs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 months

    Just wait until we start having it manufactured in a cheap labor market. The prices will plummet! It’ll likely be mostly fake, but that’s the price we pay for cheap antimatter.

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11 months

    That’s so stupid: You can make antimatter at home for tree fiddy. Just buy a bunch of bananas and wait for the potassium to decay into positrons. EZ

    • FlihpFlorp@lemm.eeEnglish
      11 months

      Tree fid- WAIT THIS AINT NO SCIENCE MAN ITS THE GOD DAMN LOCH NESS MONSTER

    • Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 months

      This leads to a modified version of the uncertainty principle: either you have a banana and can know the size of something or you have positrons and are unable to measure size.

  • VivianRixia@piefed.socialEnglish
    11 months

    I didn’t even know we could get a gram of anti-matter, cause don’t they make it proton by proton, and they also don’t exist for that long?

  • perestroika@lemm.eeEnglish
    11 months

    With a gram of antimatter, you can probably blow a city-sized crater into Earth, so yes, 60 trillion seems like a fair price.

    Edit: oh, it’s only 21 kilotons. The stuff is overpriced. :)

  • Nomecks@lemmy.caEnglish
    11 months

    I thought element 118 was like $60 quadrillion a gram because they only manged to make like 3 atoms of it.

    Edit:

    • 2.05x10^21 atoms in a gram of element 118
    • 5 atoms synthesized so far

    Assuming they somehow managed to spend only $1 making every atom, that’s $2,050,000,000,000,000,000,000 per gram.