TIL antimatter is the most expensive substance on Earth, costing $60 trillion per gram
The 7 most expensive substances ever found on planet Earth | BBC Science Focus Magazine
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I thought it was HP inkjet printer cartridges? I think that's around $60 trillion per gram, isn't it?
With a gram of antimatter, you can probably blow a city-sized crater into Earth, so yes, 60 trillion seems like a fair price.
Edit: oh, it's only 21 kilotons. The stuff is overpriced. :)
I could snort 5 grams in one weekend, so yeah, overpriced.
My Lord, the commoners mustn’t see you so
Given the technology to create and store antimatter in quantities exceeding a handful of atoms doesn't exist, it's a bit ridiculous to extrapolate a price per gram for it.
Atoms are made-up by Big Small so they can sell you more less!
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Shouldn’t it cost -$60 trillion?
New infinite money glitch unlocked!
Does it even have mass like that?
Edit: should have just kept scrolling https://sopuli.xyz/comment/15894538
a handful of atoms would be a lot of atoms!
Per mole?
Nearly as expensive as printer ink.
"Your printer has detected 3rd party antimatter. Please only refill with Genuine HP(tm) AntiMatter cartridges. Authorities have been notified and are enroute to your residence."
Why do people post things like this? And who cares? It doesn't matter; it antimatters.
This is just an irresponsible post.
Be careful putting matter and antimatter so close in a sentence.
You'll kill us all.
Does antimatter have mass?
Yes
The reason why it's called antimatter is because the polarity of the nucleus and electrons are reversed. There are also antineutrons that have a neutral charge. It all still has mass, but will obliterate upon contact with regular matter
There are also anti neutrons that have a neutral charge
Expanding onto this, it raises the question: how is a neutron different to an anti-neutron?
A neutron can be though of a particle composed of 2 down and 1 up quarks and lot of gluon's that keep everything together. The gluon is its own antiparticle, so the antineutron has 2 anti-down quarks, 1 anti-up quarks and gluons. This way it becomes a different particle despite also being of neutral charge.
yes, its the same as normal, its just the "Spin of the particles that are opposite", if you get down deeper, the quarks are opposite.
That's a good question. Maybe it has antimass?
That was a hypothesis until just recently, where they measured it and found that it has regular mass.
Unfortunately not. Antimatter isn't anti gravity.
It doesn't, but if it did that'd explain why there isn't much of it around.
Just wait until we start having it manufactured in a cheap labor market. The prices will plummet! It'll likely be mostly fake, but that's the price we pay for cheap antimatter.
That's so stupid: You can make antimatter at home for tree fiddy. Just buy a bunch of bananas and wait for the potassium to decay into positrons. EZ
This leads to a modified version of the uncertainty principle: either you have a banana and can know the size of something or you have positrons and are unable to measure size.
Tree fid- WAIT THIS AINT NO SCIENCE MAN ITS THE GOD DAMN LOCH NESS MONSTER
I didn't even know we could get a gram of anti-matter, cause don't they make it proton by proton, and they also don't exist for that long?
That rhymes
Ridiculous! Tariffs on antimatter now!
I thought element 118 was like $60 quadrillion a gram because they only manged to make like 3 atoms of it.
Edit:
Assuming they somehow managed to spend only $1 making every atom, that's $2,050,000,000,000,000,000,000 per gram.
. . .
Another problem that be fixed with scale.
no you wont trick me. its printer ink...
I bet it gets you way high
From the velocity imparted by the explosion, yes
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You're paying way too much for antimatter, man. Who's your antimatter guy?
That will be a nice addition to my periodic elements collection.
I should think about selling some of mine.
Can we even contain it? Afaik, it's destroyed basically the instant it is created because there's regular matter everywhere.
Fun fact; the standard model actually allows for spontaneous particle-antiparticle pair generation, so long as the pair mutually annihilate within some hbar defined time limit and conservation laws aren't broken at a macro scale. This is the mechanism behind hawking radiation too; some of the energy given off by black holes is caused by spontaneous pair generation that happens such that one of the pair is created beyond the event horizon and the other member is created before the event horizon, causing one to be trapped and the other to be jettisoned into space.
I know that doesn't really relate to your comment about containing antimatter but I counter with the following: I'm profoundly autistic and the standard model has been a special interest of mine before. I couldn't resist the chance to infodump a bit
That's fucking cooooool
It can be contained using magnetic fields, that has been possible since 2010: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2010/11/17/antimatter-atoms/
Scientists are even preparing to transport it in the near future: https://glassalmanac.com/why-scientists-are-transporting-antimatter-in-a-van-uncover-the-reasons/
That's the opening scene of an X-Files episode for sure.
Ah, that's why we haven't used it in weapons yet.
I figured because any amount of usedul antimatter annihilateing causes gamma rays that cook the planet, but $60T makes it a bit more prohibitive
Yeah, I usually only buy a couple of grams at a time.
That's just the price to get it.
The burn rate of storing it would be similarly astronomical, but reoccurring, cost.
And I can't even imagine the cost of transporting it
Really more of an anti-substance, ain't it?
Antimatter is metal?
By itself no, but you could form metals from antimatter.
Typically when people refer to antimatter they're talking about anti-hydrogen. Theoretically you can have any anti-element, as far as I know