"On the Big Bang theory: For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained — and that's our present universe."
"If you attempt to detain me I shall destroy your entire planet! The engines of my starship are powered by Anti-Matter, a substance opposed to everything that matters in the universe. If I were to release the magnetic forcewall which separates this Anti-Matter from normal matter, the resulting explosion will turn your planet into a heap of gravel! After all, why should Earth look different from other worlds?"
— D'Ork of the Thorkoth, Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space
Critically, a nuke will only explode if you want it to, whereas antimatter is always trying to explode whether you want it to or not.
— Cracked
Some environmentalists complain that antimatter permanently destroys matter, forever removing it from this universe. Others claim that the matter in our universe has unfairly crowded out the antimatter, and lament the "extinction" of entire galaxies of anti-matter long before life ever had a chance to arise there. If these nutjobs had their way, Pronto would be trying to blow up this building with nuclear weapons.
— Schlock Mercenary, on Pronto's antimatter cutting charges
Giller: What is that?
Juu: Antimatter. 3 kg of them.
Juu: Antimatter. 3 kg of them.
"That planet below us... is composed of negative particles... the exact opposite of the particles which make up our world! There is every possibility that life has evolved down there... even as it did on Earth!"
— Reed Richards, Fantastic Four Annual #6
She had been using her flight power to plummet them both down towards the antisun's surface. They were enough into the "atmosphere" of the sun that both were taking hits from random anti-matter particles. Not large enough to damage them, but it felt like beestings. Both of them could survive contact with, or even immersion in, a positive-matter sun. Kal had done it before, though she had not yet tried it.
But physical contact with a body of antimatter that large would annihilate them both. Or just one of them, if Kara was lucky enough to escape.
But physical contact with a body of antimatter that large would annihilate them both. Or just one of them, if Kara was lucky enough to escape.
"Must be ninety-nine percent alcohol! I think they distill it from raw antimatter. Antimatter alcohol..."
—- Groundskeeper, Mass Effect 2
The mass of metal and monster hurtled towards the rotating globe below. In seconds it was within the outer atmosphere, and small bursts of flaming explosion were seen. By the time it got to slightly denser atmosphere, the anti-matter fully reacted with the positive matter of the towers and what was on them.
It exploded, greatly.
It exploded, greatly.
Know your allergens. Pollen. Animal Dander. Plastics. Antimatter.
— Portal 2
Doctor: See this, Yaz? Anti-matter drive.
Yasmin: Oh. I did a bit on anti-matter at school. Never quite understood it.
Doctor: The thing with anti-matter is you have to either find it or generate it. That's what this bit does. Particle accelerator.
Yasmin: Like at CERN? We did that in physics. No, but the thing at CERN is massive.
Doctor: In your time, generating anti-matter cost a massive amount of money. This is progress. Things get smaller, faster and cheaper. This is like the iPhone version of CERN, accelerating enough particles to power this entire craft.
Yasmin: So how does it work?
Doctor: The particle accelerator smashes the atoms together, like a little anti-matter factory, to produce positrons, which are then stored very carefully inside electric and magnetic fields. The positrons interact with the fuel materials to produce heat, which produces thrust.
Durkas: It's pretty old school, this one.
Doctor: It's beautiful. Anti-matter powering the movement of matter. Bringing positrons into existence to move other forms of life across space. I love it. Conceptually, and actually.
Yasmin: Oh. I did a bit on anti-matter at school. Never quite understood it.
Doctor: The thing with anti-matter is you have to either find it or generate it. That's what this bit does. Particle accelerator.
Yasmin: Like at CERN? We did that in physics. No, but the thing at CERN is massive.
Doctor: In your time, generating anti-matter cost a massive amount of money. This is progress. Things get smaller, faster and cheaper. This is like the iPhone version of CERN, accelerating enough particles to power this entire craft.
Yasmin: So how does it work?
Doctor: The particle accelerator smashes the atoms together, like a little anti-matter factory, to produce positrons, which are then stored very carefully inside electric and magnetic fields. The positrons interact with the fuel materials to produce heat, which produces thrust.
Durkas: It's pretty old school, this one.
Doctor: It's beautiful. Anti-matter powering the movement of matter. Bringing positrons into existence to move other forms of life across space. I love it. Conceptually, and actually.
Data: Core shutdown is unsuccessful. We are losing antimatter containment.
Geordi: We've got to eject the core!
Data: Ejection systems offline. Core breach is imminent.
Picard: All hands Abandon Ship! Repeat, all hands aban--
(BOOM)
Geordi: We've got to eject the core!
Data: Ejection systems offline. Core breach is imminent.
Picard: All hands Abandon Ship! Repeat, all hands aban--
(BOOM)
