Design Starting For Matter-Antimatter Collider

couch_warrior writes "The Register is carrying a story on the early design efforts for the next generation of high-energy particle accelerators. They will be linear, and will collide matter and antimatter in the form of electrons and positrons. The obvious question will be: once we have a matter-antimatter reactor, how long till we have warp drive, and will the Vulcans show up for a sneak-peak?"

Comments

obvious question

[JimboFBX]

The obvious question will be: once we have a matter-antimatter reactor, how long till we have warp drive, and will the Vulcans show up for a sneak-peak?"

Maybe in a Star Trek convention...

Re:obvious question

[mcgrew]

I think the Romulans will beat the Vulcans; the Federation uses antimatter, the Romulan warbirds are powered by black holes. The LHC will be online before they even start building the antimatter accellerator.

I'm amused at what the press is going to be saying when the thing is nearing completion. They worried about Earth being swallowed by mini-black holes generated by the LHC, they'll probably have "Oh noes, antimatter! The whole solar system will blow up!!!" with the antimatter accelerators.

ZOMG

[Anonymous Coward]

Keptin, I'm giving you all she's got!

Re:ZOMG

[smoker2]

Chekov.

Re:Matter / anti matter reactor is not enough

[Tubal-Cain]

I'm waiting for ZPMs

Re:Wrong Question

[Anonymous Coward]

Ask for a bulk discount.

Re:antimatter

[CarpetShark]

Antimatter is like matter, but with an opposite electrical charge.

Kind of like your karma points for that comment ;)

Re:Wrong Question

[CarpetShark]

Now how can get some antimatter?

Easy. We can has anticheezeburger. Can removes cheezeburger, put in matter.

Re:Wrong Question

[CarpetShark]

theoretically, it could be a viable means of taking an enormous amount of energy and storing it in a small place.

The same effect can be achieved with a swift kick to the nuts.

Re:Wrong Question

[CarpetShark]

Positrons (the cheap stuff) costs ~$25 Billion per gram.

Try ebay.

Re:"sneak-peak"

[zig007]

Screw that. You both have horribly spelled nicks.

Re:antimatter

[Dishevel]

There can be only 1.

Re:antimatter

[yurtinus]

Redundant? No, it was an honest mistake and I really don't think that moderation was fair. It's quite clear he had meant to type "fr1st p0st!!!" but had his hand offset on the home row by one while he was typing. Growing up on Macs which had the little keyboard indicator nubbies under the middle fingers instead of the index fingers, I would frequently type out something in the IRCs and not realize my mistakeuntil I had already told everybody gege tgat;s wgat tiyr nin saud kast buggt!!