Quote (chiefwiggum654 @ Fri, Apr 17 2009, 03:10am)
If only we could find the damn stuff.
Actually finding it isn't the issue, it occurs natually in space, and there is a large amount of anit-matter in the Van Allen belts above / around the poles near Earth. The problem is capturing and storing it right now, Anit-matter touches regular matter and KAPOOOF..... nothing... Oh and I use the term large in that sentance loosely..
For everyone that thinks anti-matter could be used for a propulsion system, the outlook is dim, to make enough anti-matter to drive a spaceship. even if you took our current manufacturing capacity and mulitplied it by 100 times, it would still take about a billion years to produce enough to drive a space-ship, and that is @ 100 times our current manufacturing capabilities; 100 billion years otherwise.. Put it this way, ALL of the Anti-matter produced to this day by humans is right around 55 nanograms. we are capable of manufacturing anti-matter at the rate of about 6 nanograms a year.