Hi,
I enjoyed Seeberger's article, Antimatter Factory On Sun Yields Clues To Solar Explosions, http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg22608.html. The sun isn't actually an antimatter factory. The explosions are caused by antimatter colliding with the sun. The explosions can be equivalent to billions of Megatons of TNT. Antimatter coming in our solar system is also know as sungazers and comets. The solar wind and dust particles are blasting antimatter off the comet's surface to form the comet's ambi-plasma coma and tails. This phenomena led scientists to the discovery that comets are composed of antimatter. The announcement was made at the April 2002 joint meeting of American Physical Society and American Astronomical Society.
I apparently missed a lot when I didn't get to go to that meeting . . .
The discovery is as important as man's discovery and use of fire thousands of years ago.
Antimatter from comets can be used to bring every country into the 21st century without destroying Earth's environment and turn the Star Trek dream into reality.
a.. Science Comets have been discovered to be natural sources of antimatter.
Cite, please?
Antimatter is a mirror image of matter and composed of 109 antimatter elements that are included in an updated Periodic Table of Elements. Each antimatter element's nuclear, physical, and chemical properties has been identified to such an extent that people know almost as much about antimatter as matter.
Cite, please, for the claim that "people [scientists, presumably?] know almost as much about antimatter as matter"?
Matter-antimatter symmetry exists from matter & antimatter black holes
There's no such thing as an "antimatter black hole".
in center of galaxies, spiral arms of stars & anti-stars, planets & anti- planets, asteroids & comets, solar & comet dust particles, solar wind & comet ions, elements & anti-elements, quarks & anti-quarks, and leptons & anti-leptons.
Cite, please?
b.. Technology For two decades, World-Class laboratories at Fermilab, United States and CERN, Europe, have used particle accelerators to make, store, and collide antimatter with matter. Carlo Rubbia and Simon Van der Meer received a Nobel Prize for their contributions for making, storing and colliding antimatter and discovering the W and Z bosons. Spacecraft have been sent through the comet's tails and taken pictures of the comet's nucleus. When matter and antimatter come together, energy is produce according to Einstein's equation of mass times the speed of light squared or E = mc2.
So howcum the spacecraft which flew through the tails of comets were not destroyed by the energy released when particles of dust from the comet bombarded the spacecraft, presuming that the comet, and hence the dust escaping from the comet, is indeed made of antimatter? One microgram-sized piece of antimatter dust, annihilating with an equivalent amount of the mass of the spacecraft, would release more energy than 80 sticks of dynamite, which would certainly destroy the spacecraft.
c.. Economics Antimatter energy creates incredible opportunities for humanity. Five grams of antimatter (mass of nickel) is equal to five Saturn V rockets to the moon. People will travel in spacecraft to space stations in minutes, moon colonies in hours, colonies on planets in days, and with advanced technology, the stars in weeks.
This could be correct, depending on how many weeks we are talking about. I suspect it would be in the hundreds of weeks, minimum, to get to the nearest stars, even assuming a constant acceleration at a speed that the human passengers could tolerate. And even with antimatter fuel, and assuming near-100% conversion of the annihilation energy to propulsive energy, the total amount of antimatter required for a round trip to the stars would be thousands of times the mass of the spacecraft payload (i.e., the mass of _everything except_ the fuel).
Antimatter power will replace fossil power plants and produce hydrogen with off-peak electrical power. Hydrogen will replace gas in cars, trucks, and other vehicles by burning hydrogen to produce energy. Coal, oil, and natural gas will be used to make products to bring countries into the 21st century. According to Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 Moonwalker and former U.S. Senator, every country could be brought into the 21st century with about eight metric tons.
Or, eight metric tons of antimatter could be finely divided and sprinkled over every other country than the one which owns the antimatter, creating the equivalent of detonating nearly 350,000 1-megaton hydrogen bombs and thus solving the problems due to the economic inequality, overpopulation, and religious fanaticism in all those backwards countries once and for all.
By the end of this century, the World's Gross National Product will increase from $30 trillion to $3,000 trillion plus another $1,500 trillion from Space Exploration bringing the Total Gross National Product of $4,500 trillion. Millions of businesses will create billions of jobs. However, the real benefits will come from taking billions of people out of poverty and empowering them to live out their dreams and turning the Star Trek dream into reality.
I have made presentations to Association of Energy Engineers, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, WESCON/IEEE conference in San Francisco
And what were their responses?
and plan to attend the NASA Solar System Exploration Subcommittee on October 22-23, 2003, in Washington, DC. For more information, please visit www.antimatterenergy.com for general information and www.matter-antimatter.com for science/technical information. Do you know Philip M. Papaelias, who is also involved in ANTIMATTER IN COSMOLOGY, http://papaelias.gossimer.net/index.html?
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-- Ronn! :)
Ronn Blankenship Instructor of Astronomy/Planetary Science University of Montevallo Montevallo, AL
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