Epsilon Wrote:Yes, but the particles that spontaneously come into being are the size of quarks. Harvesting them for this kind of power would not only require skipping past stuff like the Uncertainty Principle (ie, how the hell would you know where, when and in what direction the antiquarks were coming into existence...) but it would be like trying to feed the entire population of the planet earth by growing individual grains of rice.
I mean, it possible that all the matter in my computer desk will spontaneously rearrange itself into pure gold. Is it practical for me to base my economic decisions on it?
No, for the foreseeable future unless we find some massively more efficient method of creating them antimatter power is beyond our means.
We don't have to break the uncertainty principle, we would just have to create a barrier that can separate them (in the black holes case this is the gravity gradient) that and wait for them to form along it's edge.
Is this efficient? not even close. In terms of time/cost/output anything we currently have is a much better bet for generating power.
If we want to crate large quantities of power I'm still rooting for fusion reactors.
But (to drag this back on topic) the creation, and more importantly retention, of antimatter is definitely something that should be lauded. Understanding the fundamentals of science is always a good investment.
After all, I doubt that anyone working on early semiconductors could envision the impact that integrated circuits would have on society.
-Terry
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