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sathorhttp://www.nasa.gov/exploration/home/antimatter_spaceship.html
If you fancy reading about an anti-matter driven engine, check out the link.
Apparently our particle accelerators may very well become future anti-matter (positron) production facilities.
Very, very interesting.
100% of energy is converted in an anti-matter reaction, as opposed to only 3% in a nuclear reaction (now imagine an anti-matter bomb - which also produces gamma rays - having that kind of conversion rate, and the amount of devastation it could produce if designed properly.)
According to the article (Dated 2006) they found a way to reduce the amount of gamma rays released. If a spacecraft using this particular engine were to explode in our atmosphere, the blast radius is estimated to be only a half-mile, similar to even the current engine that we use today because of the fireball it would emit.
If you fancy reading about an anti-matter driven engine, check out the link.
Apparently our particle accelerators may very well become future anti-matter (positron) production facilities.
Very, very interesting.
100% of energy is converted in an anti-matter reaction, as opposed to only 3% in a nuclear reaction (now imagine an anti-matter bomb - which also produces gamma rays - having that kind of conversion rate, and the amount of devastation it could produce if designed properly.)
According to the article (Dated 2006) they found a way to reduce the amount of gamma rays released. If a spacecraft using this particular engine were to explode in our atmosphere, the blast radius is estimated to be only a half-mile, similar to even the current engine that we use today because of the fireball it would emit.
