RE: [RFC][Info] Playing with Boom-Boom (Or, Antimatter and You - A Children's Parable)
04-11-2019, 03:44 PM
04-11-2019, 03:44 PM
1) Citation needed. No, seriously, I'd love to know about this.
2) I'm not sure what "perfect" reaction means in this sense. The chance of an antiproton making it further than a couple meters from a target seems fairly small. The Wikipedia page on Antimatter weapons sure seems to think efficiency is near 100%.
@Dartz: The correct way to think about it is m = c ⁻² E, because in this case the speed of light is really just a proportionality constant for converting between mass and energy.
2) I'm not sure what "perfect" reaction means in this sense. The chance of an antiproton making it further than a couple meters from a target seems fairly small. The Wikipedia page on Antimatter weapons sure seems to think efficiency is near 100%.
@Dartz: The correct way to think about it is m = c ⁻² E, because in this case the speed of light is really just a proportionality constant for converting between mass and energy.
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