http://www.matter-antimatter.com/

This guy thinks comets are made of antimatter...

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Interesting... Antimatter is really creepy stuff! I love reading things about it.

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Yeah. That and antimatter explodes when it comes into contact with matter..

So how exactly would this comet uh.. not.. explode?

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Heh.. Yeah. Except that my science text book, which was published in 2002 lists 118..

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If comets were antimatter, the energy produced by the interaction between the comet and stellar wind particles would produce in excess several megatons per second on the comet's surface.

I think the notion that comets are made of antimatter comes from, among other places, the explosion near Tunguska, Siberia when a comet or asteroid exploded mid-air. Basically, the guy who's arguing that comets are not normal matter doesn't know what he's talking about.


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There's another nice page he has up there about Atlantis and how it relates to the future of our Star Trek Dream.



[This message has been edited by Masq (edited April 23, 2004).]

I heard a theory that a perfect mirror of this universe exists in antimatter form, and that if any bit of that were to come into contact with ours there'd be one big-*** bang... so how can a comet be antimatter...? I'm confuzzled.

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Me thinks he's missing a few positive charges...

Anyway, it could very well be possible that the high energy in comets does convert a little ammount of its mass into anti-matter, but it would most likely be under a million atoms, which would be a negligible ammount.

As for Armageddon... I've heard these cries again and again, as they accompany just about every advance in science. Get used to them.

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Well... If anti-matter exploded on contact with matter, it wouldn't even be able to be made, since EVERYTHING is matter...

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If you create it in a vacuum, and then contain it with fields so that it doesn't touch anything, then you can have it.

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Wouldn't the feilds themselves be made of matter?

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o, magnetic and otehr such fields do not have to interact with matter to be present. Anti-matter is proven to exist, and even has been created in several laboratory experiments, though it is very, very unstable and will decay very rapidly.

Oh, i also found it funny how the guy makes this whole thing about Einstien's relaivity equations, and then goes and says we'll beable to travel faster then light.

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[This message has been edited by Noble Outlaw (edited April 23, 2004).]

ROFLMAO!!!

That's awesome! When can we expect the first Enterprise to appear.

Sounds to me like this guy has only a Ph.D. in Star Trek.

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[This message has been edited by DogSRoOL (edited April 23, 2004).]

i think these sceintests where watching Star Trek while graviton distortion appeard. Pulled them into space for 2 seconds... They saw a meteor collapse in the sun and then they where watching BBC back on their party... Problem solved

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Don't be so readily to jump on the notion of FTL being wholly impossible. There have been theories out there for faster than light. Researchers are still looking for the existance of tachyons.

My Physics 203 research paper is on FTL and tachyons.


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Ok... matter explodes on contact with antimatter.

So by that rule, shouldn't his website explode? Or can the hyphen be construed as a vaccuum?

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Interesting stuff. Have you read the theories about c-dot-over-c terms? Pick up Faster Than The Speed Of Light sometime. Great book.



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I know a bit about that sot of thing, tacheons are very popular in Hard SF. However, he talks about going fasten then light by simply accelerating to that speed through an matter/anti-matter engine, which is impossible.

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