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following on from the antimatter bomb thread on this forum, I was contemplating other means to cause damage using antimatter, and I was wondering if there was a way to create an explosive charge which contains antimatter suspended in a non-reactive material, and then have it explode outwards, reacting with anything it touches for a conflagration of gamma radiation and cooking anyone inside a vehicle instantly.
I have a limited knowledge of antimatter, but I recall that it requires the particles to meet their corresponding ones for an energy release - EG a positron meeting an electron, or a proton meeting an anti-proton.
Is there such a thing as an anti-neutron, or are they shared between matter & antimatter? Manufacturing techniques aside, if a container was made entirely of neutrons, could it contain antimatter and isolate it from surrounding matter until the detonation/impact? Is there anything which can survive contact with both matter & antimatter?
I have a limited knowledge of antimatter, but I recall that it requires the particles to meet their corresponding ones for an energy release - EG a positron meeting an electron, or a proton meeting an anti-proton.
Is there such a thing as an anti-neutron, or are they shared between matter & antimatter? Manufacturing techniques aside, if a container was made entirely of neutrons, could it contain antimatter and isolate it from surrounding matter until the detonation/impact? Is there anything which can survive contact with both matter & antimatter?