SCIENCE/SPACE/TIME - a meeting of the minds!
Hey guys,
I want ot keep this thread ALL ABOUT science..... space and space travel..... astrology...... quantum physics...... and time and/or time travel. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE..... leave god and religion out of this..... there are other threads for them..... this is not one of them.
I'll kick it off with a few things i've learned.....
Scientists have found "anti-matter"..... it's the opposite of everything you see right now. they have actually manufactured an "anti-matter" machine. the problem with "anti-matter" is that when it touches "matter" it explodes..... When they create anti-matter they have to surround it in pure energy. If they put it in a glass bottle..... it would explode the second it hit the wall of the bottle. This new technology is fueling more reasearch into possible "fuels" for us to cruise through space. The cost of creating anti-matter is INSANELY expensive tho. I believe i read that creating something like a teaspoon of anti-matter would bankrupt any country on earth.
Here's another thing..... Once we "fuse" two atoms..... we will be able to power a whole city for roughly 10 years on one tanker full of lithium ion fuel. In order to "fuse" an atom.... you need to create a heat that 7 times hotter than the surface of the sun. Ironically..... thats not the hard part. The hard part USED TO BE how they would contain the heat..... they've figured that out. They wrapped the heat in "pure energy". Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Now i say that the "containing the heat" WAS the hard part..... the newest challenge they face is keeping the two atoms steady. It's almost like they are repelling eachother like same pole magnets. They have successfully gotten a reaction and produced energy but havn't perfected it yet. It currently costs more to operate than what they are getting out of it..... over time tho..... the process will be refined..... and hopefully.... we can leave fossil fuels long in our dust.
Guys..... this stuff interests me to no friggin end..... gimmie all you got LOL!
~Haz~