I`v had an idea but 1`st I`d like to know a few things before I formulate any further.

it involves Anti-matter, and I`d like to have a few Simple answers.

 

do Antimatter particles Only react with an identical counter particle IE/ Positron meets Electron?

or will it interact with ANY matter? IE/ Anti-proton meets an electron or neutron, or Positron meets a proton or neutron?

It'll only annihilate with the partner. It will have "normal" interactions with everything else — a proton and positron will electrostatically repel each other, and an antiproton and positron will attract and can form antihydrogen.

damn!

 

that was Not the answer I was hoping for at all

 

oh well, there goes That brain-fart

 

ok, maybe it`s not a Complete loss!

 

how far down the Tinyness scale does this work?

 

does it apply to Sub-atomic particles also?

does it apply to Sub-atomic particles also?

 

An antineutron consists of antiquarks, so yes.

Hmmm, you're planning something fancy YT aren't you! Tell us the rest!

YT and antimatter? Something awesome and perhaps destruction on a planetary scale is bound to ensue.

/me just noticed that the rain outside is going sidewards again

oh Hush!

No matter what you are thinking of, you are dealing with matter-antimatter annihilation and I see that as RED ALERT. There is quite a lot energy coming out, so watch it! Think of electron + positron = 938MeV released!

Chill!

 

it`s only and Idea for an experiment so far, and from what Swansont said, it hardly seems even worth looking at, I can`t argue with Facts!

 

HAD the answer have been Different then we might be cookin` with gas, but they`re not, so End of chat really

 

for now anyway....

I think the reason antimatter cannot annihilate with particles other than its own pair because of conservation rules. A positron and quark would violate conservation of charge, for example.

No matter what you are thinking of, you are dealing with matter-antimatter annihilation and I see that as RED ALERT. There is quite a lot energy coming out, so watch it! Think of electron + positron = 938MeV released!

 

And then breathe a sigh of relief when you realize that shade meant proton/antiproton, since an electron/positron annihilation releases 511 keV.

:( Didn't I write that? Ah crap... Looks like lack of sleep except puffy eyes it also produces a chaos in nervous system...

it`s that Massive amount of energy that I was thinking of exploiting, if an electron and a positron can give that amount of energy, then it seamed reasonable that things even smaller would give discernible and easily detectable energy levels too.

 

making it the Front end of a really sensitive particle detector

 

in particular I was wondering if this could be used to detect Gravitons, as a way to find out for sure if it`s a direct property of Mass OR gravitons are Every where and mass simply "blocks" some of them so that we`re being Pushed down onto earth, a bit like the casimir effect.

 

I was thinking that setting up such a detector on earth, would you get more "Flashes" detected on the side facing Space, or would you get more on the side facing the earth?

 

as I said at the beginning, it was only an idea