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 M¢25  Funded By Mahalo ? |  October 07, 2009 11:28 PM

How do you build an anti-matter trap?

1. There can be no air and no particles
2. Cool the trap down - temperatures to liquid helium (-269 C)
3. Anti-matter can't touch the sides of the bottle. It must have electric and magnetic fields. An electrostatic well traps the anti-particles.

Will this design work to trap anti-matter?
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October 08, 2009 12:31 AM
Well, in principal that design should work, although I don't see the value to reducing it to such a low temperature.

In fact, I think it would be easier to control if it was a gas. In fact, I think it would be harder to ionize if it was so cold... it has to be ionized to be containable.

Say you're working with anti-hydrogen.

First have around the bottle the magnetic containment fields activated.

Then have the bottle being constantly washed in synchronized radiation of exactly the frequency that will separate the positron from the anti-proton.

As the anti-hydrogen is produced, have it spit into the bottle, be ionized by the radiation, and then the positrons and anti-protons are sent in opposite circular torus formations in the bottle by the magnetic field.
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• What is the function of the ionized radiation?


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October 08, 2009 03:20 AM
The low temperature is to lower the possibility of particle and anti-particle collision.

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October 08, 2009 06:28 AM
Q: What is the function of the ionized radiation?

A: You mean the *ionizing* radiation.

It's because anti hydrogen is electromagentically neutral, like positive hydrogen, so you can't control it with magnetic fields unless you split the positron away from the antiproton in order for each of them to have an electromagnetic charge that can be used as a handle by the magnetic fields.

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October 08, 2009 06:46 AM
S: The low temperature is to lower the possibility of particle and anti-particle collision.

R: But at low temperatures it's harder to ionize atoms, which means the bottle would have anti-hydrogen, which would be nutraly charged and which you could not grab with a magnetic field, and because it's so cold, it would just sink to the bottom of the bottle and react with the wall of the bottle.

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October 08, 2009 02:36 AM
Get a big wooden box and tip it upside down. Put some candy under it and prop it up with a big stick which has string tied to it. When the anti-matter goes into eat the candy, pull the string and sit on the box.

Note: also works on James Woods.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUPgqqIuno0


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