The explosion that occurs when antimatter and matter interact transfers the entire mass of both objects into energy. Both particles that created the explosion are completely annihilated, leaving behind other subatomic particles. When antimatter comes into contact with normal matter, these equal but opposite particles collide to produce an explosion emitting pure radiation, which travels out of the point of the explosion at the speed of light. As of 1998, CERN researchers were pushing the production of anti-hydrogen atoms to 2,000 per hour. Nine anti-hydrogen atoms were created, each lasting only 40 nanoseconds. Anti-atoms - Pairing together positrons and antiprotons, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, created the first anti-atom.In 1955, researchers at the Berkeley Bevatron produced an antiproton. Anti-protons - Protons that have a negative instead of the usual positive charge.Discovered by Carl Anderson in 1932, positrons were the first evidence that antimatter existed. Positrons - Electrons with a positive instead of negative charge.In the Pinto, you'll eventually get to the finish line, but it will take 10 times longer than in the Indy car. It's like the difference between driving an Indy race car and a 1971 Ford Pinto. A matter-antimatter engine will take us far beyond our solar system and let us reach nearby stars in a fraction of the time it would take a spacecraft propelled by a liquid-hydrogen engine, like the one used in the space shuttle. No engine is likely to generate superluminal speeds the laws of physics prevent us from doing that, but we will be able to go many times faster than our current propulsion methods allow. However, scientists are working on developing an interstellar spacecraft engine that is similar to the matter-antimatter engine of the Enterprise. Warp drive is another one of those science fiction technologies, like teleportation and time travel, that have some scientific basis. Enterprise prepared to hurl the spaceship through the cosmos at superluminal speeds.
"Engineering, stand by for warp drive." With that command, the "Star Trek" crew of the U.S.S.
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