News
Release 44 -
Discovery: Comets are composed of Antimatter.
Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New
Mexico
Monday,
April 22, 2002
The discovery that comets are sources
of antimatter is as significant as man's discovery and use of fire thousands of years ago. The discovery is based decades of research published in
thousands of scientific articles on the internet.
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Using spacecraft, fountains of antimatter have
been observed shooting
thousands of light years into space from matter & antimatter black holes in
the center of galaxies.
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In July 1995, the
Shoemaker-Levy 9
comet split into 21 fragments, which collided with Jupiter. The explosions were equivalent to over 200 million Megatons of
TNT. In June 1908, a fragment from Encke's comet hit the earth's atmosphere
in Russian
Siberia and exploded with an energy of equivalent to over 30 Megatons
of TNT.
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The matter and antimatter annihilations
have been observed from the solar wind and interstellar dust blasting antimatter off the nucleus to produce the coma
& tails
of comets.
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Scientists have produced, stored,
& collided antimatter and
discovered 24 elementary particles and 4 force carriers. The actual amount of antimatter
in our solar system is
over a million times less than predicted from
matter/antimatter asymmetry
experiments.
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The
Periodic Table of Matter-AntiMatter Elements
includes 109 matter & 109 antimatter elements along with each element's nuclear, physical, &
chemical characteristics. Today, scientists know almost as much about
antimatter as matter. Periodic Tables were given.
Antimatter
can
be used, as a source of energy, to bring every country in
the world into the 21st century without destroying our environment and turn
the Star Trek Dream into Reality by exploring Space:
The Final Frontier.
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For example, a metric ton of antimatter
(the mass of average car) could provide
all the world's electrical power for one year. Countries can stop
burning
oil, gas, & coal that pollutes our environment.
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The United States doesn't need to
import oil. The oil, which we currently import, can
be used by the second and third world countries to make products for their
people.
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According to Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 Moonwalker,
& former U.S. New Mexico Senator, all the countries
could be brought into the 21st century with eight metric tons.
Although the economic
opportunities will be measured in trillions of dollars, the real benefits will come from
billions of people being able to live out their dreams to make the world
a better place to live.
The
presentation was made at the
April
2002 joint meeting of
American Physical Society
and American Astronomical Society in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
For more information, please visit
www.matter-antimatter.com
to learn more about
matter and
antimatter.
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