Make Your Own Fusion Reactor

And I suppose that's... easy?

And I suppose that's... easy?

We currently store anti-matter in a HUGE (and by huge I mean football fields in diamter) circular tube. They speed around it in a vacuum(sp? I never can spell it). E=MC^2 like WW said. C=the speed of light which is an amazingly huge number ...now squaring that adds insult to the injury. Let's say we had 50 pounds of that shit ...boom! =D.

Anyways, antimatter is the most powerful method we have right now to approach the speed of light, isn't it? I was watching a show on space propulsion and it said that antimatter explosions could possibly send ships at half of the speed of light. Now I'd like to see the ship that could take that kind of force and survive, though =P.

We currently store anti-matter in a HUGE (and by huge I mean football fields in diamter) circular tube. They speed around it in a vacuum(sp? I never can spell it). E=MC^2 like WW said. C=the speed of light which is an amazingly huge number ...now squaring that adds insult to the injury. Let's say we had 50 pounds of that shit ...boom! =D. Anyways, antimatter is the most powerful method we have right now to approach the speed of light, isn't it? I was watching a show on space propulsion and it said that antimatter explosions could possibly send ships at half of the speed of light. Now I'd like to see the ship that could take that kind of force and survive, though =P.

That sounds horribly wrong to me.

That sounds horribly wrong to me.

It sounds horribly wrong to you? I'm going to actually devote time out of my day to looking up references now, thanks :/. All I know is it must be stored in some sort of a vacuum or something like that otherwise the gaseous particles of the air will collide with the positrons etc. and produce energy.

Ah, I was wrong. That's the tevatron. http://adcon.fnal.gov/userb/www/tevatron/

I guess that's where we get it from. It's stored in a magnetic bottle.

That's it, you were describing Fermilab's Circular Particle Accelerator, which is one of the locations capable of producing Antiparticles.

And I suppose that's... easy?

I think it depends entirely on the antiparticle being stored, as it relates to electrical charge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penning_trap

Gives an example, to a degree.