• Question: How should we store the antimatter that we would produce to make an antimatter bomb or generator? I read that we could store it in vacuum. However we would nées to store a huge quantity. So how ? Thank you for your answers.

    Asked by 631frcc32 to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 16 Jun 2015.
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      Steven Thomson answered on 16 Jun 2015:


      You’d need to store it in some kind of container that kept it hovering in midair and didn’t touch anything, even particles in the air. If antimatter touches normal matter, it annihilates (or explodes!). As far as I’m aware, no such storage mechanism exists yet. There’s also no way to generate that much antimatter though, so for the moment it’s not a problem we’ve had to face.

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