How much antimatter do you need to destroy the earth?

How much antimatter would our villain need to annihilate with “normal” matter in order to release the amounts of energy required for the destruction of Earth? Lots! Approximately 2.5 trillion tons of antimatter.

How much is 1kg of antimatter?

Let’s go with the estimate of $25 billion per gram and assume the costs are linear (which is probably completely off base), then 1 kg would cost $25 trillion. This is way more than its energy equivalent would cost since its so much harder to contain antimatter than coal, oil, TNT or even uranium.

Does antimatter have mass?

Antimatter particles share the same mass as their matter counterparts, but qualities such as electric charge are opposite. The positively charged positron, for example, is the antiparticle to the negatively charged electron.

Has Higgs boson been proven?

An elusive particle A problem for many years has been that no experiment has observed the Higgs boson to confirm the theory. On 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider announced they had each observed a new particle in the mass region around 125 GeV.

Is antimatter available on earth?

The Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the early universe. But today, everything we see from the smallest life forms on Earth to the largest stellar objects is made almost entirely of matter. Comparatively, there is not much antimatter to be found.

Can you buy anti matter?

Another option is to simply buy some Antimatter from a Galactic Trade terminal. The terminals can be found either at an Outpost (which you can find using the steps in the bullet point above) or in any Space Station.

How much antimatter would it take to destroy the Earth?

1kg of antimatter will annihilate 1kg of matter and release 2 c 2 = 1.8 × 10 17 joules of energy. To put this in perspective, this is enough energy to melt about 10 11 kg of granite. For comparison the weight of Mount Everest is about 10 15 kg, so it wouldn’t cause wholesale melting of the Earth.

Why is there more matter than antimatter in the universe?

So why is there far more matter than antimatter in the universe? The Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the early universe. But today, everything we see from the smallest life forms on Earth to the largest stellar objects is made almost entirely of matter. Comparatively, there is not much antimatter to be found.

What would happen if matter and anti-matter collide?

What would happen after the collision matter and the anti-matter? Whenever antimatter meets matter (assuming their particles are of the same type), then annihilation occurs, and energy is released. In this case, a 1 kg chunk of the earth would be annihilated, along with the meteorite.

How long would it take to make 1kg of antimatter?

According to http://www.engr.psu.edu/antimatter/papers/nasa_anti.pdf the global production of anti-matter is about 10 nanograms per year, so making your 1kg of antimatter would take 100 billion years or about 10 times the age of the universe.