Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoTIL antimatter is the most expensive substance on Earth, costing $60 trillion per gramwww.sciencefocus.comexternal-linkmessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1369arrow-down121file-text
arrow-up1348arrow-down1external-linkTIL antimatter is the most expensive substance on Earth, costing $60 trillion per gramwww.sciencefocus.comQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square75fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarepeoplebeproblems@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 days agoAh, 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
minus-squareQuilotoa@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 days agoYeah, I usually only buy a couple of grams at a time.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoThat’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
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