Antimatter

In my opinion antimatter will be the eventual solution to interstellar space travel due to its efficiency in using small amounts of it to produce large distances in space travel. At CERN they are able to produce several trillionths of a gram of antimatter at a cost of $20 million. Total worldwide production to date has been a few nanograms. Although that may seem like minuscule amounts produced it is 10-12 kilograms compared to what physicist Michio Kaku quotes Gerald Smith of Pennsylvania State University estimating that 4 milligrams of antimatter would take us to Mars (a milligram of antimatter is 10-6 kilograms). In terms of a size comparison we would need to move from production of antimatter from the size of a human cell to the size of a Mosquito. Kaku says that it is conceivable that if an atom smasher was built specifically just to produce lots of antimatter (current atom smashers have various purposes that are in demand) combined with mass producing these machines we could get antimatter production up significantly.

Antimatter: The Future of Space Exploration

Published on : September 3, 2019February 13, 2021 Published by : admin

In my opinion, antimatter will be the eventual solution to interstellar space travel due to its efficiency with regards to using small amounts of it to traverse through a large amount of outer space. At CERN they are able to produce several trillionths of a gram of antimatter at a […]

Dilraj Dosanjh

Dilraj Dosanjh is a New Media graduate from BCIT and an avid space enthusiast. He enjoys writing about space related news and also likes putting out his opinions regarding current issues about space travel. He is also a science fiction geek that likes a wide variety of science fiction T.V shows, movies and video games.

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Antimatter: The Future of Space Exploration