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If the particles were cold enough, why wouldn't an electrostatic kind of bottle work?drachefly wrote:Re: sticking AM in a polarized container: There is no electrostatic bottle. In order to confine something you need magnets.
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source)
- PeZook
m=100*10^3kg=1e5kgUmmm...I'm writing a story and I really need to know...how big a boom would a hundred tons of antimatter make?
The main site yields the following figures:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaton wrote:(A megaton of TNT is 4.184 × 1015 joules = 4.184 petajoules (PJ).)
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Not to nitpick, but the mass would be 200 tons converted to energy, since antimatter by itself won't turn into gamma rays unless it meets an identical quantity of matter . . .DEATH wrote:m=100*10^3kg=1e5kgUmmm...I'm writing a story and I really need to know...how big a boom would a hundred tons of antimatter make?
Hmm, thought he meant a bomb made of anti-matter with a mass of 100 tons, thanks for pointing that out for me.Not to nitpick, but the mass would be 200 tons converted to energy, since antimatter by itself won't turn into gamma rays unless it meets an identical quantity of matter
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"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) - PeZookIt's an order of magnitude more powerful than an Acclamator's heavy guns. Yes, that's big.Shroom Man 777 wrote:Woah...5.2 teratons...that's big, right?
Yes. (9m)e16 J, where m is the mass of the antimatter, assuming it's not exploding in a vacuum.Anyway, thanks, bro!
Btw, is there an antimatter weight to explosive yield calculator?
Because the term 'electrostatic bottle' is meaningless.Winston Blake wrote:If the particles were cold enough, why wouldn't an electrostatic kind of bottle work?drachefly wrote:Re: sticking AM in a polarized container: There is no electrostatic bottle. In order to confine something you need magnets.
Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know, the piper's calling you to join him
Even considering the objections already listed for antimatter weaponry, if such things could exist, their design and application would be purely strategic. Personal AM weapons like grenades are about as feasible as breeding armies of sentient killer cardboard boxes.Qwerty 42 wrote:^ I am of the opinion that an electrostatic bottle would bear a shocking resemblance to a Jolt Cola bottle.
To help the person doing the story, in my story I had a pro-military regime switching over to antimatter grenades so they look like they're designing superior weaponry, since it takes place a long time after their last real war. The people in the solar system they invade take advantage of the antimatter grenades by blowing them up while they're still strapped to the person using them. Since the large-yield weapons would be impractical for foot soldiers, they eventually wind up switching over to conventional grenades that have the same yield, but the transition isn't completed by the end of the war.
Basically, any civilization that uses antimatter weapons with great regularity hasn't seen a whole lot of combat, especially if foot soliders are using it.
Google is wonderfull for this.Broomstick wrote:The problem is, my calculator can't handle squaring the speed of light. Also, be careful you don't bollix up your units of measure. You'll get a fuck of a large number no matter what you do.
