A list of the seven most expensive substances on Earth.
Given the technology to create and store antimatter in quantities exceeding a handful of atoms doesn’t exist, it’s a bit ridiculous to extrapolate a price per gram for it.
Does it even have mass like that?
Edit: should have just kept scrolling https://sopuli.xyz/comment/15894538
Nearly as expensive as printer ink.
“Your printer has detected 3rd party antimatter. Please only refill with Genuine HP™ AntiMatter cartridges. Authorities have been notified and are enroute to your residence.”
That’s not even buying it; you’re renting it by the nanosecond.
It’s a subscription model for the artificial stuff. The natural version is dirt cheap. It’s always the middle man with these modern services, I tell you.
Why do people post things like this? And who cares? It doesn’t matter; it antimatters.
Does antimatter have mass?
The reason why it’s called antimatter is because the polarity of the nucleus and electrons are reversed. There are also antineutrons that have a neutral charge. It all still has mass, but will obliterate upon contact with regular matter
There are also anti neutrons that have a neutral charge
Expanding onto this, it raises the question: how is a neutron different to an anti-neutron?
A neutron can be though of a particle composed of 2 down and 1 up quarks and lot of gluon’s that keep everything together. The gluon is its own antiparticle, so the antineutron has 2 anti-down quarks, 1 anti-up quarks and gluons. This way it becomes a different particle despite also being of neutral charge.
That was a hypothesis until just recently, where they measured it and found that it has regular mass.
