Apr 11
22
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected beams of antimatter launched by thunderstorms. Acting like enormous particle accelerators, the storms can emit gamma-ray flashes, called TGFs, and high-energy electrons and positrons. Scientists now think that most TGFs produce particle beams and antimatter. This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov Like our videos? Subscribe to NASA’s Goddard Shorts HD podcast: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov Or find NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on facebook: www.facebook.com Or find us on Twitter: twitter.com
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if they will be only able to collect it and use as a fuel for spacecrafts
if the anti-matter makes contact with matter, do they do an explosion?
i thought gamma rays are rare and only occur with crazy intense events like stars exploding… how do baby thunderstorms make gamma rays??
@Renegade30 I know. Their public relations techniques are getting better all the time. Now let’s just pump them the necessary funds for some serious long-range, manned space exploration!
@richbah127 not sure, but I think it would be more like mutual-annihilation….not sure if an explosion would accompany this. But I am not a scientist. I am a lit student. Double entendre. Tee-hee.
@shkwave99I watched Dr. Michio Kaku explaining how works the anti-matter in Discovery Channel, and he said that if there is a Michio Kaku made of anti-matter, and do contact with him, they explode together
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wow
Imagine weaponizing antimatter.
Antimatter, ey…? We’re coming for ya, God! ;D
Yeah thumbs up for this video, very very interesting!
@richbah127 I believe when matter and anti matter collide, they do make an explosion of sorts, but one atom, or sub-atomic particle of anti-mater colliding with matter would not produce a big enough explosion to even be seen by the human eye
DO THE GAMMA RAY’S EVER GO DOWNWARD TO EARTH?
@Gumby553 that would mean the end our solar system… Way worse the all the nukes we have combined
Now we can power our Starships!
@yurpadre Yes
@dahalla I would actually rather all of our nukes be anti-matter bombs of equivalent strength. They would create far less fallout- if I recall right none since it is a perfect matter to energy conversion. Perhaps the explosive force would catalyze other reactions yielding radioactive isotopes- but would still be less then conventional nukes.
1 gram of anti matter (+1 gram of normal) packs the same amount of energy potential as 9 space shuttles (with booster rockets) worth of chemical energy.
great!I just can’t wait to see how the world is going to be destroyed by antimatter…
@yurpadre YES THEY DO! AND THROUGH EARTH AS WELL! WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?
@StrikaAmaru LOUD NOISES!!
Could this possibly explain thar infamous ‘directed energy weapon/particle beam’ footage from the NASA STS mission?
The TGF’s are mainly above fault lines. Do you think that the static discharge from below the earth add to the effect?
How awesome would it be if it were possible to collect antimatter from electrical storms, instead of building huge expensive facilities like CERN. We could be one step closer to interstellar travel.