Antimatter turns the Star Trek Dream into Reality
Scientists have discovered that comets are natural sources of antimatter. The announcement was made at April 2002 joint meeting of American Physical Society and American Astronomical Society. Antimatter is a mirror image of matter. The update Periodic Table Elements has 109 matter and 109 antimatter elements. Each antimatter element’s nuclear, physical, and chemical properties have been defined to such an extent that people know almost as much about antimatter as matter. When matter and antimatter come together, energy is created according to Einstein's equation of mass times the speed of light squared or E = mc2: The most efficient energy source in the universe.
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Antimatter meteors and comets have collided with the Earth, Jupiter, and Sun. In June 1908, a comet meteor collided with Earth's atmosphere over Russian Siberia and produced an explosion equal to a 30 Megaton of TNT. In July 1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet broke into fragments that collided with Jupiter. The 21 explosions were equivalent to over 200 million Megatons of TNT. On July 23, 2002, an antimatter sungrazer comet collided with the Sun and produced enough energy to supply world's energy needs for 10,000 years. Hundreds of sungrazers comets have collided with the Sun.
According to
The New York Times article, antimatter comets are colliding with stars
throughout the Universe and are the source of
gamma-ray bursts that
scientists have been studying for 40 years.
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