OMG, we just created antimatter!!!

5thhouse · **Thu Sep 19, 2002 9:24 pm OMG, we just created antimatter!!!**

I was reading the newspaper, and guess what, a swiss lab has just produced Antimatter!!!
Now we can test if that would work for powering a warp engine!!!

Borg Dude · Ensign, Junior Grade Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Posts: 34

well antimatter was created but it was only a few atoms and it took so much energy to create they still have a long way to go before there is enough to test a warp engine.

its a start though

Kylon · **Thu Sep 19, 2002 10:28 pm They**

THEYVE HAD IT FOR 50 years, and they Theorized it in the 30's.
(I am boring you so I will shutup)

5thhouse · **Thu Sep 19, 2002 11:05 pm**

I know that they have had it but not in this quantity or of this atom, it is becoming more practical to produce

PhionexAlpha · **Thu Sep 19, 2002 11:07 pm**

in the 30's they had less knowlege of atoms,and sub-atomic particles as they have know.so it only makes sense that it took them that long

@Chuckles · **Thu Sep 19, 2002 11:16 pm**

one more important step for man!

Lindley · **Fri Sep 20, 2002 4:55 am**

I read an article on this. Its specifically said that they aren't even close to being able to power a starship with it. However, *if* they actually did make a large quantity of antihydrogen-----the experiment hasn't yet been reproduced-----it would at least be a step towards understanding antimatter.

Bugger Boy · **Fri Sep 20, 2002 3:00 pm**

We wouldn't be able to use warp engines anyway, we have no way to sheild a ship from space debri. At warp speed it would totally rip the hull apart.
Plus we need to invent stuctural integrity fields and inercial dampeners before we can make a succesful warp flight.

But that's just little me's opinion...

PhionexAlpha · **Fri Sep 20, 2002 4:49 pm**

well it will tak etime,but it is possible.
i wanna be one of the first to be on a warp capable spacecraft.
(if im still alive)

PrankishSmart · **Sat Sep 21, 2002 6:49 am**

good news

Fleet Admiral Labatt · **Sat Sep 21, 2002 11:18 pm**

Here's my 2 cents

Antimatter being produced is no news.

It has been produced for several years.

The Problem is that it takes millions and millions to produce just 1 mg

Also the production rate is incredibly slow. In one year we produce 1 mg. At this rate it will be centuries before we can try Antimatter as a power source.

Hope this helped

admiral · **Wed Sep 25, 2002 10:34 am**

i don't think we will make ever enough antimater to power a warpdrive

we can try but i don't gonna think it is working

Deciviel · **Sat Oct 05, 2002 1:09 pm Re: OMG, we just created antimatter!!!**

The Hunter · **Sat Oct 05, 2002 9:38 pm**

its just so wonderful LOl (really it is)

Tremiles · **Sat Oct 05, 2002 11:49 pm**

We would also need to find a way to create a warp buble which would alow the ship to move frictionless thrue space, and we would need to create a metle that could withstand the taring force of the engins.

5thhouse · **Mon Oct 07, 2002 6:20 pm**

NIKKI13 · **Thu Oct 10, 2002 12:14 am**

FRICTION...? IN SPACE?

Mark Mag Gloade · **Thu Oct 10, 2002 2:30 pm**

well if warp drive does become possiple in 50 years
they should bast the ship desighn on a fighter jet(light fast armoured armed and cool)

Vulcanmanmike · **Sat Oct 12, 2002 7:04 pm**

There will never be Warp flight!!!!!!!!!!! Scientence have a great understanding of the Universe. And Warp drive contradics aal theroys stated in Quantium Pysics. So it is not possible to have Warp drive. But Anti-matter is a great source of power.

PrankishSmart · **Sun Oct 13, 2002 7:31 am**

5thhouse · **Sun Oct 13, 2002 2:07 pm**

It needs time, but I think that it can be achieved

Vulcanmanmike · **Sun Oct 13, 2002 3:51 pm**

I am still very skeptical.

PrankishSmart · **Sun Oct 13, 2002 9:06 pm**

yeah, people were skeptical about is flying possible, until the wright bros. proved the world wrong. and, i believe that einsteins theory that the speed of light is the fastest speed has been proved wrong also, so u never know...

5thhouse · **Sun Oct 13, 2002 10:34 pm**

People also used to think that the world was flat. The only thing that hampers our progress, is our own denial and fear of it.

ZoomZoom · **Sun Oct 20, 2002 9:36 pm Warp flight**

You guys are forgeting one thing, antimatter exists in its own form naturally, but we can't harvest it. You see, the event horizon of a black hole is composed entirely of antimatter, that is why everything is destroyed at that point (no its not gravometric pressure) also, deuterium which is req'd to operate a warp drive (theoretically operate) already exists. Its just another name for heavy hydrogen.

Dunno if u already knew that.