The Asgard Nuetrino Ion engines just got served....

[Myst_Lore]

Through my digging into the world of particles and astronomy..I have found the energy output that just plain kills the Asgards engines.

The Antimatter Output:

1 kg of antimatter with 1 kg of matter =

180 quadrillion Joules....

Asgards...got....served....

[walterIsTheMan]

1 kg antimatter + 1kg matter = your ship and everything within several hundred thousand kilometers toast too difficult to regulate that kind of reaction

[Myst_Lore]

With the technology standpoint of the Asgard or Ancients, they could easily control the antimatter flow to get all that sweet, sweet energy.

[Zekk]

I agree i mean we are talkin bout Thor, the guy who has a computer that can make anything he can imagine

[walterIsTheMan]

idk though, i bet they cant regulate the reaction. we know they dont use M/AM so there must be a reason. It cant be that they dont know about it. And I doubt they have a problem making it. Although it is very difficult for us to make and contain it, they could probably do it. So then why dont they use it? The only thing that makes sense is that they cant regulate the reaction, or they think its too dangerous to work with.

[Myst_Lore]

It isn't that hard to control the reaction...all you need is to pump the M/AM into the main part of the engine that would be encased by Naquadah which would absorb the energy

[freyr's mother]

That may be so, but it's not practical. Scientists have produced two billionths of a gram of antimatter. They estimate that one single gram of antimatter would cost several billion dollars to make. Guess what, it's all done with magnets.

[walterIsTheMan]

It isn't that hard to control the reaction...all you need is to pump the M/AM into the main part of the engine that would be encased by Naquadah which would absorb the energy

lol, firstly, Naquadah isnt real, so we have no idea if it would absorb the energy. second, since we have seen that naquadah tends to enhance explosive effects, i dont think thats something you want to have near a matter/antimatter reaction

[freyr's mother]

lol, firstly, Naquadah isnt real, so we have no idea if it would absorb the energy. second, since we have seen that naquadah tends to enhance explosive effects, i dont think thats something you want to have near a matter/antimatter reaction

what he said.

[Dylan Deltoran]

Guys...its Sci-Fi...and what's to say that it isn't possible somehow...we're not close to that level of technology yet...(or are we? )...

[zephc]

If anyone remembers their Star Trek lore (or indeed Star Trek lol) they will remember that they too used matter/anti-matter reactions to power the warp drive.

Some factoids: A 100% efficient reaction of 1 kg of matter to energy would produce about 8.9E16* joules. By comparison, the sun produces about 3.8E26 per second, so thats the equivalent of about 4.3E9, or 4.3 billion kilograms of matter converted to pure energy every second. The mass of the sun is about 1.9E30 kilograms.

A controlled reaction would have to emit and radiate (assuming a focused beam) an incredible small amount of energy from a matter/antimatter reaction per second, otherwise it would surely irradiate/disintegrate your starship

Antimatter bombs are a better idea: just make sure you have the time set for more than 5 minutes, and get scootin'!

* E notation means 'times 10 to the power of'

[Three PhDs]

That may be so, but it's not practical. Scientists have produced two billionths of a gram of antimatter. They estimate that one single gram of antimatter would cost several billion dollars to make. Guess what, it's all done with magnets.

In the early 1940s America was struggling to extract a few milligrams of Uranium, by the end of the war... well, we all know what happened there.

[CueBa'al]

A reactor capable of extracting energy from antimatter would be very difficult to keep within acceptable operating temperatures. The cooling system would require a radical approach. In the sci-fi world, maybe light can be used to do the trick, much like the researchers who worked on the experiment to test the Bose-Einstein cloud theory. Magnets and lazer light.

[Three PhDs]

1 kg antimatter + 1kg matter = your ship and everything within several hundred thousand kilometers toast too difficult to regulate that kind of reaction

Yeah, same thing happens if you burn all the fuel an airliner carries at once. Which is why it's not all burned at once.

A reactor capable of extracting energy from antimatter would be very difficult to keep within acceptable operating temperatures.

What are acceptable operating temperatures for a matter/antimatter reactor?

The cooling system would require a radical approach. In the sci-fi world, maybe light can be used to do the trick, much like the researchers who worked on the experiment to test the Bose-Einstein cloud theory. Magnets and lazer light.

What sort of radical approach. Describe the operation of such a reactor for me.

[Darth Buddha]

idk though, i bet they cant regulate the reaction. we know they dont use M/AM so there must be a reason. It cant be that they dont know about it. And I doubt they have a problem making it. Although it is very difficult for us to make and contain it, they could probably do it. So then why dont they use it? The only thing that makes sense is that they cant regulate the reaction, or they think its too dangerous to work with.

"The only thing that makes sense"?

Come on. You are brighter than that (demonstrably by your earlier posts, so I'm not calling you dumb on the sly).

Why not use antimatter? Let's try some alternate hypotheses...

Could be that if you lose power you blow up? After all, you can't contain antimatter with any physical container because it will touch it and annihilate.

That's one other thing that "makes sense".

How about some other ideas as to why you wouldn't want an anti-matter reactor in your ship?

A reactor capable of extracting energy from antimatter would be very difficult to keep within acceptable operating temperatures. The cooling system would require a radical approach. In the sci-fi world, maybe light can be used to do the trick, much like the researchers who worked on the experiment to test the Bose-Einstein cloud theory. Magnets and lazer light.

When you are way out on the hypothetical limb, maybe you need to use a few more caveats. As we have no idea what a reactor capable of extracting energy from an antimattter system would be like in the first place, we have no idea what its operating temperature would be... only guesstimates on top of suppositions built on some conjectures.