Do you know what is the most valuable material in the world? If you think it is Gold, Silver, Platinum or Diamond, then you are wrong. The answer is anti matter, the price of 1 gram of antimatter is estimated by NASA to be more than $ 90 trillion! If you haven't lost your head after these numbers, then you will definitely ask why?
In very simple terms, anti-matter is the opposite material of general matter. But the main difference is that it has a reverse charge. Since Anti Matter and Matter are made of completely opposite particles, their interaction with each other produces an incredible amount of energy.
Suppose in some way you have 1 gram of anti matter, if you accidentally drop 1 gram on the ground, it will create such a powerful explosion that it literally turns into dust a huge city. It is also assumed that if anti-matter can be used as space fuel, it can launch a rocket at 50% the speed of light. There are many examples of its use.
The question that arises now is that if this anti-matter is so incredibly useful, then why don't we produce it in huge quantities? Because there are many difficulties in creating antimatter. Everything that we see is composed of ordinary matter. Everything that we could learn about our world, the moon, stars, the entire galaxy and what is in space in this universe is ordinary matter. Although it is speculated that there could be an entire galaxy created by Anti Matter, it makes no sense. Because we can't get there. And this antimatter galaxy is just a hypothesis.
Anti matter is naturally created when high atmospheric cosmic rays enter the earth's atmosphere. But the amount of generated antimatter is very small, and it is active for a short time, decaying when it comes to contact with ordinary matter. And therefore, the only way to get anti-matter is to create and preserve it artificially in our world. But the process of creating antimatter is incredibly expensive and inefficient. The production and storage efficiency of antimatter is very low. It takes about 1 billion times more energy to create antimatter than it contains. Using E = mc 2, we find that 1 gram of antimatter contains: 0.001 kg x (300,000,000 m / s) 2 = 90,000 GJ = 25 million kWh.
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One of the experiments at the Hadron Collider deals with the creation of anti-matter. It is capable of producing about 10 million antiprotons per minute. In fact, 10 million antiprotons is an extremely meager amount, because at this rate, it will take more than 100 billion years to create 1 gram of anti-matter!
The next problem is to store it, anti-matter is exposed to ordinary matter, so you cannot store it in a simple container. The longest storage period for antimatter is 1000 seconds.
in the ALPHA experiment at CERN. Since 1 gram of antimatter can destroy a city, it's not hard to imagine that you need to be incredibly careful to store it.
Scientists are persistently trying to create a larger amount of antimatter, but modern technologies are not capable of this, perhaps in the future ideas for tangible production will appear, but so far the obtained substance is enough only for short experiments.