Antimatter as Energy Source

What is the most important question in this earth? The answer is ‘energy’.

The world cannot move without the energy. The demand of energy is increasing is day by day. If this continues, then can you imagine what will happen after 50 years?

But here is a solution. That is Einstein’s ‘Mass-Energy Equivalent Formula’.

According to this formula, if you can convert all of the energy contained in 1 kg of sugar or 1 kg other stuff then you can drive for about 100,000 years without stopping! GREAT SOLUTION !!

Again question arise, how it can be happened?

The solution is ‘Antimatter.’

What is antimatter?

In particle physics, antimatter is the extension of the concept of the antiparticle to matter, where antimatter is composed of antiparticles in the same way that normal matter is composed of particles.

Where?

Antiparticles are created everywhere in the universe where high-energy particle collisions take place. High-energy cosmic rays impacting Earth's atmosphere (or any other matter in the solar system) produce minute quantities of antimatter which are immediately annihilated by contact with nearby matter.

It may similarly be produced in regions like the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and other galaxies, where very energetic celestial events occur.

Detection:

With the help of Gamma Ray, the presence of antimatter can be determined.

Recently European Space Agency's INTEGRAL (International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) satellite images shows the origin of a giant cloud of antimatter surrounding the galactic center.

Artificial production

Antiparticles are also produced in any environment with a sufficiently high temperature (mean particle energy greater than the pair production threshold). During the period of baryogenesis, when the universe was extremely hot and dense, matter and antimatter were continually produced and annihilated. The presence of remaining matter, and absence of detectable remaining antimatter,^[5] also called baryon asymmetry, is attributed to violation of the CP-symmetry relating matter and antimatter. The exact mechanism of this violation during baryogenesis remains a mystery.

Positrons are also produced via the radioactive beta⁺ decay, but this mechanism can be considered as "natural" as well as "artificial".

Preservation

Antimatter cannot be stored in a container made of ordinary matter. Cause antimatter reacts with any matter it touches and annihilating itself and the container. Antimatter that is composed of charged particles can be contained by a combination of an electric field and a magnetic field in a device known as a Penning trap.

Cost

Antimatter is said to be the most costly substance in existence, with an estimated cost of $62.5 trillion per gram. This is because production is difficult (only a few atoms are produced in reactions in particle accelerators), and because there is higher demand for the other uses of particle accelerators. According to CERN, it has cost a few hundred million Swiss Francs to produce about 1 billionth of a gram.

Uses

· Fuel

In antimatter-matter collisions resulting in photon emission, the entire rest mass of the particles is converted to kinetic energy. The energy per unit mass (9×10¹⁶ J/kg) is about 10 orders of magnitude greater than chemical energy (compared to TNT at 4.2×10⁶ J/kg, and formation of water at 1.56×10⁷ J/kg), about 4 orders of magnitude greater than nuclear energy that can be liberated today using nuclear fission (about 40 MeV per ²³⁸U nucleus transmuted to Lead, or 1.5×10¹³ J/kg), and about 2 orders of magnitude greater than the best possible from fusion (about 6.3×10¹⁴ J/kg for the proton-proton chain). The reaction of 1 kg of antimatter with 1 kg of matter would produce 1.8×10¹⁷ J (180 petajoules) of energy (by the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc²), or the rough equivalent of 47 megatons of TNT.

For this if we can use antimatter as fuel then the tension for energy will remove forever.