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Yes, it's amazing work. Also, don't be fooled that because it is so difficult to produce today that it can't be scaled immensely. Plutonium production was scal
by jhayward 10y ago
Yes, it's amazing work. Also, don't be fooled that because it is so difficult to produce today that it can't be scaled immensely. Plutonium production was scaled from nanogram levels to ton levels in less than a decade.
- hughes 10y agoWell... 14 anti-hydrogen atoms is a lot less than a nanogram. It's about 1/100th of a trillionth of a nanogram. If we scale up production in the next decade at the same pace you're describing, we might get to nanogram levels.
- jhayward 10y ago> we might get to nanogram levels Right! Now we're talking about some antimatter! Kidding of course. But there is no reason to believe ab initio that it could not be scaled to whatever quantity is useful given enough incentive for that use.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoA nanogram of antimatter is 90 kilojoules waiting to be released if it touches any regular matter. Not the biggest bomb in the world, but something to be treated with at least mild respect.