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Old 2012-07-25, 16:15   Link #982
Apache Thunder
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Possible path for her to generate anti matter? Here's a part of a science story I read that mentioned using powerful electromagnetic fields on a vacum which when strong enough would cause anti matter to spontaneously appear:

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One possibility for in-situ refueling that we introduce in this proposal is a quantum effect known as Schwinger pair production.

At all energies probed by experiments to date, the universe is accurately described as a set of quantum fields. Each mode of the vacuum behaves like a simple harmonic oscillator, and one quantum mechanical property of these oscillators is that their ground state exhibits fluctuations as a consequence of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

The vacuum is thus not devoid of matter or energy as classical physics would have us believe, but is instead a rich arena of quantum activity. Not long after Dirac's discovery that a relativistic description of electrons required the existence of positrons it was realized by Nobel Prize winning Physicist Julian Schwinger that that a strong enough electric field can create electron-positron pairs out of the vacuum of space itself.

For a laser intensity greater than some critical value, pair production is generated via a 'break-up' of the vacuum polarization. While the electric field strength necessary to accomplish this is immense, to say the least, recent experimental advances have raised hope that lasers may soon achieve field intensities on the order of this very critical field intensity.
Now Misaka just needs some form of vacume like a large container with the air pulled out and now voila, anti-matter.


(source: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/...nd-antimatter/ )
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