Antimatter occurs in the nucleus when a neutron or proton gets excited and one of its quarks is able to break the gluon bond with the other quarks.
But rather than actually departing the neutron or proton, the energy that is built up forms into a new quark-antiquark pair of, maintaining color-anticolor balance in a meson virtual particle.
The meson exists only briefly and either decomposes into other smaller particles and light waves or is absorbed into another adjacent neutron or proton.
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I won't be, but I wish I was alive to see the first test of an antimatter bomb.
That would be so cool.
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!physics is producing large amounts of antimatter (about 1 gram) even feasible?
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Antimatter occurs in the nucleus when a neutron or proton gets excited and one of its quarks is able to break the gluon bond with the other quarks.
But rather than actually departing the neutron or proton, the energy that is built up forms into a new quark-antiquark pair of, maintaining color-anticolor balance in a meson virtual particle.
The meson exists only briefly and either decomposes into other smaller particles and light waves or is absorbed into another adjacent neutron or proton.
In other words, no, not really.
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Not with our current tech
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Unlikely! But to heck with cost and feasibility. I want photon torpedoes, darnit.
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