antimatter bombs ever work?

[swansont]

Spacetime already supports that much energy. Consider that E = mc^2 does not apply only to antimatter: all of the matter around you is tightly bundled energy. If you anhilate matter and anti-matter, you're really just spreading the energy density out thinner.

 

That's true of any explosive, though. But having the energy densely stored as a chemical potential is a lot more comfortable than having it present more diffusely as thermal and kinetic energy.

[AlexTehManiac]

Shure they have one its called ( The Hadron Accelerator ) to create a Black hole called the start of another universe within our universe. Mite take us all with it. Like we never were her in the begining.

 

Actually, I believe it is really called the "Large Hadron Collider" that creates the black holes yes?

[swansont]

Actually, I believe it is really called the "Large Hadron Collider" that creates the black holes yes?

 

Yes, but OTOH, no, it won't. But that off-topic for this thread, and has been brought up elsewhere.

[dragonstar57]

whenever antimatter bombs are discussed people always talk about a bomb weighing about 1 lb having a yield of 4 times that of the largest nuclear detonation. but no one mentions a very small devise with the same yield as say 200lbs of TNT.

how would such a devise be (without containment)

dust particle size?

with that kind of punch in such a small size its worth discussion

Edited July 2, 2010 by cipher510

[Mr Skeptic]

The energy is given by E=mc^2, just remember to double m because an equal amount of matter as antimatter is annihilated. You can multiply them in Google Calculator like so (for a 300 gram bomb), and then put the result into the Joules to Megatons Conversion Calculator

[swansont]

Virtually all of the size of such a device would be the containment vessel. That could be about the size of a beer can, and would be many orders of magnitude more difficult and expensive to construct than a normal bomb of similar yield.

[dragonstar57]

the idea is to have a small high explosive that can be smuggled/hidden.

an explosive that can be easily hidden but also has a relatively high yield would be a valuable weapon weather (idk if i used the right weather here) it be for a lighter faster missile or for a tactical sabotage