antimatter radiation
Will someone plese explain the whole antimatter radiation buisness? I mean, I get that Janeway thinks it's stupid, but why. Is there a reson or is it just for a stupid gag's sake
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Oh, foo.
All it is is normal radiation (Alpha, beta, gamma); just translated over to it's antimatter opposites. |
That, and antimatter radiation would destroy any matter it came in contact with. It wouldn't make you mutate, it would just kill you.
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Alpha = a helium nucleus (two protons and two neutrons), which would become two neutrons and two antiprotons. Beta = electron, becomes a positron (one wonders why Data's head doesn't explode, but let's not dwell on that). Gamma = a photon, which isn't matter and so doesn't have an antiparticle. So basically, alpha and beta antimatter radiation would be made of antimatter, which would be anhiliated before it radiated anywhere, and in the process produce gamma rays, which would be indistinguishable from gamma rays from other sources (more or less). Keep in mind that my degree is in chemistry and not particle physics, so I may be wrong on some points. /Mr. Science |
I think we have a new candidate for the rather neglected Jokes and References section.
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More like an old candidate. Antimatter radiation is covered in the second one down. :)
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yeah, they would. Of course, the only way to prove they are anti-neutrons is by colliding them with real neutrons and watching the gamma rays it produces. Which means you have to score a direct hit with another atom's nucleus (and it can't be standard hydrogen, either). So, this one might reach you. If you were standing a couple of meters away and there weren't any particularly thick sheets of paper shielding you.
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I really liked that TJI. Heh.
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(Welcome to the forum, ualleverybody! What's with the name?) |
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Nope. In the esrevinU rorriM, antimatter radiation would be noitadiar rettamitna, which doesn't mean anything.
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In mathematical terms, -0 = 0. |
WOW did you just put your foot in your mouth. You dare cite math to me? Especially when I'm the one of us who did his homework before posting?
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Ouch.
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Would antiquarks be odos?
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Oh, and a :D for Dereks comment, too. :) |
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From the Desk of Sa'ar Chasm Things to do: Remove taste of shoe polish from tongue. Return B.Sc. Hide in cave for a decade or two. |
Good ideas.
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Thanks!!
and my penname is a refrence to lost, you know charlie's band's song "You all everybody" |
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That was pretty funny.
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True.
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Oi... Sheesh. Great, now I've got images of little quarks and little odos fighting it out on the sub-quantum level, causing total destruction in my warp core...
It's as bad as my new secret project. |
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Standard M/AM reaction=good
Quarks and odos fighting it out in there= Warp core breach nuff said. |
Hmmm. Good point.
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