A list of the seven most expensive substances on Earth.
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- 1 year
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.
1 yearDoes it even have mass like that?
Edit: should have just kept scrolling https://sopuli.xyz/comment/15894538
- 1 year
“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.”
- vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish1 year
nah, they’ll just let you print antimatter ink on matter paper, and then claim that the explosion was your fault for counterfeiting
Planes have to stop at the equator so everyone can get their matter jars ready to switch before they convert naturally
- cenzorrll@lemmy.caEnglish1 year
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
That’s not even buying it; you’re renting it by the nanosecond.
- 1 year
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.
- 1 year
These days it’s all part of the Adobe Standard Model Suite. Can’t even get it separately.
Why do people post things like this? And who cares? It doesn’t matter; it antimatters.
- stembolts@programming.devEnglish1 year
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.zoneEnglish1 year
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.comEnglish1 year
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.
- 6 months
- Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
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.
- LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzEnglish1 year
That was a hypothesis until just recently, where they measured it and found that it has regular mass.
- gedhrel@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
It doesn’t, but if it did that’d explain why there isn’t much of it around.
- spicystraw@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
1 gram of antimatter stored? Forget the explosion—imagine the insurance premium on that thing.
- spicystraw@lemmy.worldEnglish11 months
I don’t know what to tell you buddy, because AI are trained on how people write on the internet?
- yarr@feddit.nlEnglish1 year
I thought it was HP inkjet printer cartridges? I think that’s around $60 trillion per gram, isn’t it?
- dogslayeggs@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
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.
- 1 year
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.eeEnglish1 year
Tree fid- WAIT THIS AINT NO SCIENCE MAN ITS THE GOD DAMN LOCH NESS MONSTER
- Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.worldEnglish11 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.
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.eeEnglish1 year
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.caEnglish11 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.
