TIL antimatter is the most expensive substance on Earth, costing $60 trillion per gram
A list of the seven most expensive substances on Earth.
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Atoms are made-up by Big Small so they can sell you more less!
Ooh! You card read good!
Shouldn’t it cost -$60 trillion?
Does it even have mass like that?
Edit: should have just kept scrolling https://sopuli.xyz/comment/15894538
a handful of atoms would be a lot of atoms!
Per mole?
Nearly as expensive as printer ink.
"Your printer has detected 3rd party antimatter. Please only refill with Genuine HP(tm) AntiMatter cartridges. Authorities have been notified and are enroute to your residence."
Starts printing Anti-Authorities
Anti-Authorities save lives instead of take them.
Stop posting my wish fulfillment, it's distracting. 😂
nah, they'll just let you print antimatter ink on matter paper, and then claim that the explosion was your fault for counterfeiting
Idiots, just fill a jar with matter and flip it over.
This is why it's so dangerous to go to Australia.
Planes have to stop at the equator so everyone can get their matter jars ready to switch before they convert naturally
Ackshually, the plane is the matter jar. It's just super uncomfortable for the passengers if the pilot doesn't get the maneuver just right in the air, so they land and do it there instead. Sometimes they'll fly along the equator and do it slowly if they're going across the Pacific, e.g. USA -> Australia, instead of USA -> Chile
Genius, where can i invest in your company!?
That’s not even buying it; you’re renting it by the nanosecond.
It's a subscription model for the artificial stuff. The natural version is dirt cheap. It's always the middle man with these modern services, I tell you.
Adobe Antimatter
These days it's all part of the Adobe Standard Model Suite. Can't even get it separately.
Why do people post things like this? And who cares? It doesn't matter; it antimatters.
This is just an irresponsible post.
Be careful putting matter and antimatter so close in a sentence.
You'll kill us all.
Does antimatter have mass?
The reason why it's called antimatter is because the polarity of the nucleus and electrons are reversed. There are also antineutrons that have a neutral charge. It all still has mass, but will obliterate upon contact with regular matter
Expanding onto this, it raises the question: how is a neutron different to an anti-neutron?
A neutron can be though of a particle composed of 2 down and 1 up quarks and lot of gluon's that keep everything together. The gluon is its own antiparticle, so the antineutron has 2 anti-down quarks, 1 anti-up quarks and gluons. This way it becomes a different particle despite also being of neutral charge.
yes, its the same as normal, its just the "Spin of the particles that are opposite", if you get down deeper, the quarks are opposite.
That's a good question. Maybe it has antimass?
That was a hypothesis until just recently, where they measured it and found that it has regular mass.
https://home.cern/science/experiments/gbar
Unfortunately not. Antimatter isn't anti gravity.
It doesn't, but if it did that'd explain why there isn't much of it around.
1 gram of antimatter stored? Forget the explosion—imagine the insurance premium on that thing.
Why do you write like an AI?
I don't know what to tell you buddy, because AI are trained on how people write on the internet?
More important question, why do you think like one?
Sorry, I guess?
What kind of question is that?
Just wait until we start having it manufactured in a cheap labor market. The prices will plummet! It'll likely be mostly fake, but that's the price we pay for cheap antimatter.
I thought it was HP inkjet printer cartridges? I think that's around $60 trillion per gram, isn't it?
That's so stupid: You can make antimatter at home for tree fiddy. Just buy a bunch of bananas and wait for the potassium to decay into positrons. EZ
Tree fid- WAIT THIS AINT NO SCIENCE MAN ITS THE GOD DAMN LOCH NESS MONSTER
This leads to a modified version of the uncertainty principle: either you have a banana and can know the size of something or you have positrons and are unable to measure size.
I didn't even know we could get a gram of anti-matter, cause don't they make it proton by proton, and they also don't exist for that long?
I could snort 5 grams in one weekend, so yeah, overpriced.
My Lord, the commoners mustn’t see you so
Ridiculous! Tariffs on antimatter now!
I thought element 118 was like $60 quadrillion a gram because they only manged to make like 3 atoms of it.
Edit:
Assuming they somehow managed to spend only $1 making every atom, that's $2,050,000,000,000,000,000,000 per gram.
. . .
Another problem that be fixed with scale.
no you wont trick me. its printer ink...
I bet it gets you way high
From the velocity imparted by the explosion, yes
If u r buying dm me, i got a connect
That will be a nice addition to my periodic elements collection.
You're paying way too much for antimatter, man. Who's your antimatter guy?
Ah, that's why we haven't used it in weapons yet.
I figured because any amount of usedul antimatter annihilateing causes gamma rays that cook the planet, but $60T makes it a bit more prohibitive
Yeah, I usually only buy a couple of grams at a time.
That's just the price to get it.
The burn rate of storing it would be similarly astronomical, but reoccurring, cost.
And I can't even imagine the cost of transporting it
Can we even contain it? Afaik, it's destroyed basically the instant it is created because there's regular matter everywhere.
Fun fact; the standard model actually allows for spontaneous particle-antiparticle pair generation, so long as the pair mutually annihilate within some hbar defined time limit and conservation laws aren't broken at a macro scale. This is the mechanism behind hawking radiation too; some of the energy given off by black holes is caused by spontaneous pair generation that happens such that one of the pair is created beyond the event horizon and the other member is created before the event horizon, causing one to be trapped and the other to be jettisoned into space.
I know that doesn't really relate to your comment about containing antimatter but I counter with the following: I'm profoundly autistic and the standard model has been a special interest of mine before. I couldn't resist the chance to infodump a bit
That's fucking cooooool
It can be contained using magnetic fields, that has been possible since 2010: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2010/11/17/antimatter-atoms/
Scientists are even preparing to transport it in the near future: https://glassalmanac.com/why-scientists-are-transporting-antimatter-in-a-van-uncover-the-reasons/
That's the opening scene of an X-Files episode for sure.
Really more of an anti-substance, ain't it?
seems cheap to something that isn't supposed to exist.
Antimatter is metal?
By itself no, but you could form metals from antimatter.
Typically when people refer to antimatter they're talking about anti-hydrogen. Theoretically you can have any anti-element, as far as I know