Ok this is most probably stupid but, if you where to heat a proton rich Environment to roughly the heat of the center of the sun or higher, confined the protons in a magnetic field that made sure they all stayed close together then put a small amount of anti protons into the middle of the protons would it create more anti protons than you started with.

 

this is to simply discuss if you could create more anti protons than you started with using this method and weather the power requirement would be lower than using an atom smasher, this is not a discussion on the usefulness of antimatter, and if you wish to discuss that then say it after the yes or no so i can ignore it.

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I should have probably put this is the general mathematics board because this is a purely mathematical question, if you already know the resistance of protons, the amount of energy released by the matter antimatter annihilation and the factor of the heat.

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Edited March 17, 200916 yr by BigMoosie

Would you create antiprotons? Possibly. Any thermal distribution is going to have high-speed particles, and you may get the occasional collision that can generate a proton/antiproton pair. Or an additional pair, if that's what you started with.

 

But the antiprotons are much more likely to simply annihilate, and once this happens, the emitted particles are going to have too little energy to create more proton/antiproton pairs. And one is compelled to ask where the original antiprotons would come from.