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Old 16-April-2008, 05:36 AM
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I think most of the issues in this post have been covered repeatedly in thread, but:

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Originally Posted by Wuggy69 View Post
A terrorist would need only half of a gram of antimatter to be equally destructive as the Hiroshima bomb. If CERN'santi-matter factory were to blow up today it would only affect the regions bordering France and Switzerland.
Why would it blow up? It certainly wouldn't be due to anti-matter. From:

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/...tAandD-en.html

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The inefficiency of antimatter production is enormous: you get only a tenth of a billion (10-10) of the invested energy back. If we could assemble all the antimatter we've ever made at CERN and annihilate it with matter, we would have enough energy to light a single electric light bulb for a few minutes.
A half-gram of antimatter (as you suggested above) would be an astonishingly large quantity. CERN couldn't possibly produce anywhere near that much, nor could it be stored for any significant time, so it wouldn't be possible to accumulate it, even if it could be produced in such large quantities.
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