Antimatter Factories & Uses (Narration Only)

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🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Antimatter represents both the most powerful weapon and most powerful fuel for a future humanity, if we can ever learn to make it efficiently and store it safely. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/OeJI3LUJzlA Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Social Media: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Credits: Antimatter Factories & Uses Episode 239; May 21, 2020 Writers Isaac Arthur Steve Nixon Editors Darius Said Jerry Guern Keith Blockus Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics Fishy Tree https://www.deviantart.com/fishytree/ Ken York (YD Visual) https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ Kris Holland (Mafic Studios) www.maficstudios.com Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners. In this month's Nebula exclusive, big alien theory,
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0:23.3	In response to new quantum theories, Einstein quipped, God does not play dice.
0:29.5	One wonders what he would have said if he knew some of those dice are also highly explosive.
0:36.7	Antimatter is the most destructive material in existence, to regular matter anyway.
0:42.3	A gram of antimatter coming into contact with a gram of matter would destroy both, releasing
0:47.5	50 million kilowatt hours of energy.
0:50.4	If done suddenly, it would explode with almost three times the power of the Hiroshima bomb,
0:55.0	and if we can figure out how to mass produce and store the material, it could serve as
0:59.0	both the greatest weapon and greatest starship fuel, but we can also use it for more peaceful,
1:05.0	mundane, and smaller applications, which we'll be discussing today.
1:09.0	When it comes to antimatter, we've got five areas we need to discuss.
1:13.7	The first is what it is and what it is not.
1:16.8	The second is how we could mass produce it.
1:19.1	The third is how we could store it for long periods.
1:22.0	The fourth is how we could keep this dangerous material secure from accident, theft, and sabotage.
1:27.3	And the fifth is all
1:28.5	its applications and uses as an amazing form of stored energy and initiator of desirable
1:34.2	nuclear reactions. This is going to be one of our longer episodes and will be dipping
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