We have came across many expensive things on planet earth which are said to be uncountable, but upon all, Antimatter is said to be as the most expensive thing ever. It's totally expensive that no human being has a net worth compare to the worth of Antimatter per gram. However, humans have produced only a minuscule amount of it.
What is Antimatter?
Antimatter is defined as matter that is composed of the antiparticles (or "partners") of the corresponding particles of "ordinary" matter.
What is the cost of Antimatter?
Antimatter is with a price tag of about $62.5 trillion per gram- is the most expensive substance on the earth. Whereas if we even combine the net worth of the top 100 people in the world their net worth will probably not match the cost of Antimatter per gram. Nothing in the world has never being expensive compare to the cost of Antimatter.
A gram of antimatter could produce an explosion the size of a nuclear bomb... Making 1 gram of antimatter would require approximately 25 million billion kilowatt-hours of energy.
What are some of the uses of Antimatter?
Medical
Matter–antimatter reactions have practical applications in medical imaging, such as positron emission tomography (PET). In positive beta decay, a nuclide loses surplus positive charge by emitting a positron (in the same event, a proton becomes a neutron, and a neutrino is also emitted). Nuclides with surplus positive charge are easily made in a cyclotron and are widely generated for medical use. Antiprotons have also been shown within laboratory experiments to have the potential to treat certain cancers, in a similar method currently used for ion (proton) therapy.
Fuel
Isolated and stored anti-matter could be used as a fuel for interplanetary or interstellar travel as part of an antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion or another antimatter rocket. Since the energy density of antimatter is higher than that of conventional fuels, an antimatter-fueled spacecraft would have a higher thrust-to-weight ratio than a conventional spacecraft.
If matter–antimatter collisions resulted only in photon emission, the entire rest mass of the particles would be converted to kinetic energy. The energy per unit mass (9×1016 J/kg) is about 10 orders of magnitude greater than chemical energies,[84] and about 3 orders of magnitude greater than the nuclear potential energy that can be liberated, today, using nuclear fission (about 200 MeV per fission reaction[85] or 8×1013 J/kg), and about 2 orders of magnitude greater than the best possible results expected from fusion (about 6.3×1014 J/kg for the proton–proton chain). The reaction of 1 kg of antimatter with 1 kg of matter would produce 1.8×1017 J (180 petajoules) of energy (by the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc2), or the rough equivalent of 43 megatons of TNT – slightly less than the yield of the 27,000 kg Tsar Bomba, the largest thermonuclear weapon ever detonated.
Weapons
Main article: Antimatter weapon
Antimatter has been considered as a trigger mechanism for nuclear weapons. A major obstacle is the difficulty of producing antimatter in large enough quantities, and there is no evidence that it will ever be feasible. Nonetheless, the U.S. Air Force funded studies of the physics of antimatter in the Cold War, and began considering its possible use in weapons, not just as a trigger, but as the explosive itself.
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