rev2023.5.1.43405. The fictional bomb works by touching 1 gram of matter to 1 gram of antimatter a substance made of sub-atomic particles with properties opposite those of normal matter particles causing. "[When] a proton and antiproton annihilate each other, their mass completely disappears," Professor Dosersays. So to kill all humans you need 406,900 kg of antimatter. nuclear physics - Would a matter-antimatter explosion cause fallout Professor Doser actually thinks matter might be the evil half of this equation, with antimatter being the "good guy". [3] Cost [ edit] Or a kilogram? If you absolutely, positively need to sterilize the surface, you must blast it from orbit. The solar irradiance on Earth every second. radiation - Antimatter bomb - Physics Stack Exchange Today, it takes nearly a year for an unmanned spacecraft to reach Mars. We have to double the figure because that's the antimatter mass, and we're converting that mass of antimatter plus an equal mass of matter into energy. The pressure decays exponentially over time and has positive and negative (suction) phases. I went to wolframalpha.com, and typed in this. This result eliminates one possible loophole that Big Bang cosmologists were hoping to exploit in an attempt to solve this longstanding problem with their model. For TNT this has been accurately measured as 4686J/g from a large sample of air blast experiments, and theoretically calculated to be 4853J/g. Professor Doser and his colleagues need anti-protons. This is not the first time Big Bang thinking has led to the conclusion that the universe shouldnt exist. Instead of wasting 1E28 joules in an antimatter explosion on the surface of Earth, how about a nice 1E20 J bomb set off in a carefully drilled hole inside 10 Hygiea -- wait a few months and let gravity do most of the heavy lifting (or falling in this case) when 10 Hygiea impacts the Earth. Why 1.810 14 joules? A large open explosion of TNT may maintain fireball temperatures high enough so that some of those products do burn up with atmospheric oxygen. This blast radius calculator helps you determine the distance for detonations, after which there would be no fragments. For a 10 km dinosaur killer asteroid, 1 kg of antimatter should be sufficient retarget the asteroid -- actually quite a bit less would actually be needed because there are quite a few near earth objects that would need only a tiny orbital deflection to serve the purpose, the largest of these earth crossers, 1866 Sysyphusone of these objects happens to fit the bill as it is probably over 8 km diameter (close enough for our imagination) and currently scheduled to pass about 17 million km from the earth on Nov 24, 2071. And yet, a piece of fruit makes antimatter too. And for my Trekkie friends out there, that also means fusion-poweredwarp driveslike those on Star Trek ships are unlikely to be a thing any time soon. Take a proton (a charged subatomic particle) 2. So ever since I read a book (Angels and Demons by Dan Brown?) Such a wave can be catastrophic depending upon its intensity. The antihydrogen gets stuck in the area with the weakest magnetic field. I mean like a lot of people I've looked at the "NukeMap" website and gone "Wow, the Tsar Bomb really is pretty destructive", what would the Enterprise-D crashing into a city look like by comparison. Did you get it? the algonquin club boston cookies that taste like mcdonaldland cookies 0 Comments 1 View 0 Likes. Calculating a single RE factor for an explosive is, however, impossible. The first is that the technology developed in CERN's Antimatter Factory has been appliedin medical imaging tools calledPET scanners. Thanks for contributing an answer to Physics Stack Exchange!