Is anti-matter nothing or an element that kills everything that is matter?

For example if I were anti-matter, I would possibly kill everyone that opens this link? Or No one reads this thread and its nothing.

Antimatter is the opposite of normal matter. Where normal matter matter has up quarks, antimatter has down quarks and vice versa. Antiparticles have equal mass but opposite charges to their normal counterparts, and every particle has an antiparticle. For example, the electron (mass 1/1840 AMU, charge -1) has a corresponding antiparticle in the positron (mass 1/1840 AMU, charge +1).

We say "normal" matter relatively, it is perfectly possible to have a galaxy made of antimatter. Or a building. Or a spoon. The only difference would be that a normal spoon would be made of iron, and the antimatter spoon is made of anti-iron.

When matter and antimatter meet, they are both annihilated and there is no matter left. The matter is converted into energy via E=mC^2. The energy is released as light and neutrinos.

When matter and antimatter meet, they are both annihilated and there is no matter left. The matter is converted into energy via E=mC^2. The energy is released as light and neutrinos.


Is that how the Death Star was blown up? Because it was just a release of energy with particles of light.


starts at 7:45 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvRX7VQuats

Is that how the Death Star was blown up? Because it was just a release of energy with particles of light.



No. the death star blew up because it took a torpedo to its main reactor.

Well, probably not. I don't know what power plant the death star used, but for all the matter composing the death star to have been annihilated there would have to be an equal amount of antimatter. That strikes me as fairly impractical, as moon sized planet killing battle stations go.

Also, the explosion can be seen to cause a ring of debris, smoke and fire. That's matter.

Moving to the physics subforum...

Instead of trying to unnaturally change where the subject is heading, why not dump this in the Sci-Fi forum?!

Instead of trying to unnaturally change where the subject is heading, why not dump this in the Sci-Fi forum?!

Well I moved it based on his initial question. I didn't think he would change the direction like that.... I failed to read everything, probably because I have been a bit punchy lately.

The Death Star wasn't fully destroyed in a New Hope, which was when Luke shot it with a torpedo. That's why it was resurrected in Return of the Jedi.

Dorks.

Dorks.

LOL, haven't heard that word used in years (at least where I live)