All 50 Uses of
antimatter
in
Angels & Demons
- FACT The world's largest scientific research facility-Switzerland's Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN)-recently succeeded in producing the first particles of antimatter.†
Chpt Intr.
- Antimatter is identical to physical matter except that it is composed of particles whose electric charges are opposite to those found in normal matter.†
Chpt Intr. *
- Antimatter is the most powerful energy source known to man.†
Chpt Intr.
- Antimatter creates no pollution or radiation, and a droplet could power New York City for a full day.†
Chpt Intr.
- Antimatter is highly unstable.†
Chpt Intr.
- A single gram of antimatter contains the energy of a 20-kiloton nuclear bomb-the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.†
Chpt Intr.
- Until recently antimatter has been created only in very small amounts (a few atoms at a time).†
Chpt Intr.
- But CERN has now broken ground on its new Antiproton Decelerator-an advanced antimatter production facility that promises to create antimatter in much larger quantities.†
Chpt Intr.
- But CERN has now broken ground on its new Antiproton Decelerator-an advanced antimatter production facility that promises to create antimatter in much larger quantities.†
Chpt Intr.
- Director, you are looking at the world's first specimens of antimatter.†
Chpt 19-20
- I sense you've heard of antimatter, Mr. Langdon?†
Chpt 21-22
- Isn't antimatter what fuels the U.S.S. Enterprise?†
Chpt 21-22
- So antimatter is real?†
Chpt 21-22
- Antimatter is yin to matter's yang.†
Chpt 21-22
- But there are enormous technological barriers to actually storing antimatter.†
Chpt 21-22
- My father built a reverse polarity vacuum to pull the antimatter positrons out of the accelerator before they could decay.†
Chpt 21-22
- Matter arced right, and antimatter arced left.†
Chpt 21-22
- Antimatter cannot be stored inside canisters made out of matter.†
Chpt 21-22
- The antimatter would instantly react with-†
Chpt 21-22
- The antimatter is suspended.†
Chpt 21-22
- The canisters are called 'antimatter traps' because they literally trap the antimatter in the center of the canister, suspending it at a safe distance from the sides and bottom.†
Chpt 21-22
- The canisters are called 'antimatter traps' because they literally trap the antimatter in the center of the canister, suspending it at a safe distance from the sides and bottom.†
Chpt 21-22
- Antimatter is highly unstable.†
Chpt 21-22
- Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact.†
Chpt 21-22
- Keeping antimatter isolated from matter is a challenge, of course, because everything on earth is made of matter.†
Chpt 21-22
- These antimatter traps?†
Chpt 21-22
- My father produced the first particles of antimatter but was stymied by how to store them.†
Chpt 21-22
- Their opposing magnetic fields intersect in the center of the canister and hold the antimatter there, suspended in midvacuum.†
Chpt 21-22
- Antimatter floating in a vacuum, not touching anything at all.†
Chpt 21-22
- The antimatter falls out of suspension, hits the bottom of the trap, and we see an annihilation.†
Chpt 21-22
- If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyed instantly.†
Chpt 21-22
- A particle of matter and a particle of antimatter combine to release two new particles-called photons.†
Chpt 21-22
- So if the antimatter falls, we see a tiny puff of light?†
Chpt 21-22
- Antimatter has some astonishing characteristics, Mr. Langdon, which make it quite dangerous.†
Chpt 21-22
- You're about to witness your first antimatter-matter annihilation.†
Chpt 21-22
- Langdon looked out at the antimatter trap sitting alone on the floor of the enormous tank.†
Chpt 21-22
- "Normally," Vittoria explained, "we'd have to wait the full twenty-four hours until the batteries died, but this chamber contains magnets beneath the floor that can override the trap, pulling the antimatter out of suspension.†
Chpt 21-22
- And when the matter and antimatter touch ….†
Chpt 21-22
- Antimatter releases pure energy.†
Chpt 21-22
- Antimatter is important technology.†
Chpt 23-24
- My father wanted time to present antimatter in the appropriate light.†
Chpt 23-24
- Although antimatter technology had staggering potential as an efficient and nonpolluting energy source-if unveiled prematurely, antimatter ran the risk of being vilified by the politics and PR fiascoes that had killed nuclear and solar power.†
Chpt 23-24
- Although antimatter technology had staggering potential as an efficient and nonpolluting energy source-if unveiled prematurely, antimatter ran the risk of being vilified by the politics and PR fiascoes that had killed nuclear and solar power.†
Chpt 23-24
- Antimatter technology could save the planet.†
Chpt 23-24
- He had enemies here at CERN, you know that, but it couldn't have had anything to do with antimatter.†
Chpt 23-24
- All the antimatter specimens were accounted for.†
Chpt 23-24
- Antimatter.†
Chpt 23-24
- Antimatter was the same way.†
Chpt 23-24
- Firing up sixteen miles of electromagnets to create a tiny specimen of antimatter expended more energy than the resulting antimatter contained.†
Chpt 23-24
- Firing up sixteen miles of electromagnets to create a tiny specimen of antimatter expended more energy than the resulting antimatter contained.†
Chpt 23-24
Definition:
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(antimatter) matter consisting of elementary particles that are like normal matter except for having opposite electrical charges