Air Force Researching Antimatter Weapons

mlmitton writes "The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that the Air Force is actively pursuing antimatter weapons. Such weapons would easy eclipse nuclear weapons in power, e.g., 1 gram of antimatter would equal 23 space shuttle fuel tanks of energy. Perhaps more interesting, after an initial inquiry by the Chronicle in the summer, the Air Force issued a gag order that prohibits any Air Force employee from discussing antimatter research or funding."

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Re:thank you bush

[Loco3KGT]

You can thank the Democrats for the lack of education though.

liberal schools with no grades but "self confidence" a plenty and grades like " Math makes Katie :'( "

Anti-Big Bang Theory...

[bergeron76]

Ok, so I have a theory that this could become the anti-big bang. The antimatter and matter collision causes an instability in the universe and rather than it contract back into itself, the antimatter instability would create a "chase" big-bang.

Consider this: the universe is growing at an infinite rate; we know this. An antimatter Big Bang originating on Earth would most likely be offset from the origin point of the original Big Bang. Thus, eventually at some point (assuming it grows in a circular fashion) the two points would intersect. My prediction is that this intersection causes the Anti-matter and true matter to scatter all over the place and a new Big Bang begins - ad infinitum (or ad nauseam depending on your state of mind).