Antimatter Part 1 (WHY WE SHOULDN'T EXIST AND WHY BANANAS ARE RADIOACTIVE)
What is the most expensive thing that exists? Gold? Sure, it's expensive, priced at a pricey $41/gram, but that's nothing compared to other things like heroin. Heroin is a very expensive drug priced at around $200/gram. Diamond, though, is nearly $50,000/gram for pure diamond. Still though, 1 kilo gram of pure diamond would still not even compare to the world's most expensive object.
The world's most expensive object is... ANTIMATTER!!! Now, you may be wondering, what the heck is this guy talking about? What's antimatter? The enemy of matter? Well, that's actually partially correct.
So basically, antimatter and matter are the exact opposite, because the sub-atomic particles will react. If antimatter has contact with any matter, it will instantly annihilate itself, releasing 100% pure energy. Compare that to the world's strongest nuclear weapons right now, only releasing 8-10% pure energy. If one gram of antimatter detonated, that will cause much more damage than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined. And it's only one gram.
So how much is the price tag on this object? Well, that ranges between many articles, from billions to hundreds of trillions per gram! Why is this object so freaking expensive?
Here's the basic formula to the value of things: Demand*Amount. The demand for antimatter is huge, while there are pretty much no antimatter existing (only about 18 nanograms in the whole entire world), and the ones that are, from the time you start reading the sentence to now, probably have already annihilated during the time you spent to read just this sentence. Scientists think that during The Big Bang, the antimatter collided with matter, which means there should be equal amounts of both, which should only leave behind pure energy. So in theory, we should not exist. There must have been one extra matter particle. It's hard to believe that one small particle could decided the life or death of nearly 7.6 billion living things.
So we'll start with the demand part next time. Why is antimatter so important? Oh, and one more random fact. Bananas are radioactive! They spit out one positron approximately every 75 minutes. This means that bananas produce antimatter! Don't worry, they're still safe to eat.
The world's most expensive object is... ANTIMATTER!!! Now, you may be wondering, what the heck is this guy talking about? What's antimatter? The enemy of matter? Well, that's actually partially correct.
So basically, antimatter and matter are the exact opposite, because the sub-atomic particles will react. If antimatter has contact with any matter, it will instantly annihilate itself, releasing 100% pure energy. Compare that to the world's strongest nuclear weapons right now, only releasing 8-10% pure energy. If one gram of antimatter detonated, that will cause much more damage than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined. And it's only one gram.
So how much is the price tag on this object? Well, that ranges between many articles, from billions to hundreds of trillions per gram! Why is this object so freaking expensive?
Here's the basic formula to the value of things: Demand*Amount. The demand for antimatter is huge, while there are pretty much no antimatter existing (only about 18 nanograms in the whole entire world), and the ones that are, from the time you start reading the sentence to now, probably have already annihilated during the time you spent to read just this sentence. Scientists think that during The Big Bang, the antimatter collided with matter, which means there should be equal amounts of both, which should only leave behind pure energy. So in theory, we should not exist. There must have been one extra matter particle. It's hard to believe that one small particle could decided the life or death of nearly 7.6 billion living things.
So we'll start with the demand part next time. Why is antimatter so important? Oh, and one more random fact. Bananas are radioactive! They spit out one positron approximately every 75 minutes. This means that bananas produce antimatter! Don't worry, they're still safe to eat.
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