The bottle is called a “trap” because that’s what it does, it traps antimatter. The team is called the ALPHA collaboration. It was created by an international team of scientists at CERN. It uses a magnet to keep antimatter on the inside from interacting with the walls of the trap and exploding. They did it by creating a magnetic bottle called a Minimum Magnetic Field Trap. Antimatter was successfully stored for the first time in 2010. This stops it from making contact with matter. In order to store antimatter it has to be kept in a sealed container and held up with magnets so that it floats. This makes it incredibly hard to store antimatter. If antimatter makes contact with air it will cause an explosion. If antimatter makes contact with any ordinary matter it will explode, this includes air. But even this is insanely expensive for only one bullet.Īntimatter is one of the most unstable substances in the world. However small scale antimatter weapons are much more affordable, as I mentioned earlier you can create a bullet with a 10 millionth of a gram of antimatter in it for only $600,000. Bill Gates couldn’t afford more than one millionth of a gram. No country has considered it worth it to make one, and even the richest businessmen in the world don’t have the funds to build one. Antimatter weapons would be the most destructive and powerful in human history, so why don’t they exist? The only reason they don’t exist yet is because they just so expensive to make. There are many hypothetical antimatter weapons, the most well known of which is the antimatter bomb. Which means we shouldn’t exist, physicists are still unsure as to why we’re around.Īn antimatter weapon is a weapon which would use antimatter as a power source, a propellant or an explosive. Since after the Big Bang there was nothing left but matter and antimatter in equal amounts, they should have annihilated everything. When a collision between a particle and it’s opposing antiparticle collide, both of them are annihilated which causes a massive release of energy, otherwise known as an explosion.

Scientists have trouble finding antimatter however it can be created for a hefty price. Particles of both antimatter and matter were created. The universe began to cool and then expand. For a period of time after the Big Bang there was only energy. But antimatter is incredibly scarce, and scientists still don’t know why. Both antimatter and matter were created after the big bang, and the universe should be made up of 50% matter, and 50% antimatter. The sub-atomic particles of matter have the opposite properties of antimatter. This one bullet would be equivalent to 378 grams of TNT, which is more powerful than a modern grenade.Īntimatter is the opposite of matter. However for only $600,000 you could fit a 10 millionth of a gram of antimatter into a snipers bullet. 1 gram of antimatter costs $62.5 trillion according to NASA. Antimatter is one of the costliest materials in the world. The antimatter bomb is something any country rich enough could potentially make but it’s so expensive no country has put in the effort. The Tsar Bomba is the world’s most powerful nuclear weapon it was developed by Russia and has the explosive force of all the explosives that went off during world war two times 10. When antimatter collides with matter it can end up creating the largest explosion in human history.

Bananas produce antimatter