matter and anti matter

[Chaos Descending]

Maybe the same "periodic table guy" can run the same equation using the real atomic mass of a pair of hydrogen (or rather, a hydrogen and an anti-hydrogen) atoms. How much does a single "annihilation event" produce?

1 Hydrogen plus 1 Anti-Hydrogen would yield about 0.000000000300568304 Joules of energy.

 

[Cary L. Brown]

Maybe the same "periodic table guy" can run the same equation using the real atomic mass of a pair of hydrogen (or rather, a hydrogen and an anti-hydrogen) atoms. How much does a single "annihilation event" produce?

1 Hydrogen plus 1 Anti-Hydrogen would yield about 0.000000000300568304 Joules of energy.

Thanks!

Now, putting that into context...

You need to annihilate 3,327,030,784 atoms (or rather, you need 1,663,515,392 annihilation events) to produce the same amount of energy you get from a 1/100 of a drop of beer.

How many drops make a Stein-full?

And the amount of antihydrogen which our guys THINK that they created (and I'm, as I said, not 100% convinced that they even did so at all, though I'm inclined to think it's likely) is far, far less than that.