Antimatter

[Saikou_The_Lewd_King]

Pretty basics questions but this is for science.

So, from what I get when Matter touch Anti-Matter explosions happens.But like, what happens if a small part of a Anti-Matter structure touch a small part of a Matter structure? What would happen then? Would only the part that collided explodes or would the whole structure be obliterated?

 

[DontTalk]

Well, first lets assume by anti-matter you mean the specific anti-particles for the common matter.

In that case if matter touches anti-matter in equal portions both gets converted into energy completly. The energy then casues additional damage.

So if you have 1 atom of anti-matter hydrogen (to call it that) than it would annihilate exactly 1 hydrogen atom. That means those would be turned into energy.

This energy woud cause radiation (and through that in most cases probably an explosion).

In the hydrogen example the explosion would be about 3e-7 J of energy.

 

[Andykhang]

If it just touch slightly though, the energy would be so great that the two object would be obliterate, but the matter would be seperate from each other.