The book I have been reading has probably been read by most of you. It is Dan Browns masterpiece “Angels and demons”. The book is fictive, but it addresses a topic that is very real: antimatter.
Antimatter can be described as the opposite of matter. When matter and antimatter join together they destroy each other and a huge amount of energy is produced. If one gram of matter and one gram of antimatter is united, the energy produced is enough to keep a 100W lamp lit for 60 000 years. Scientists today are working on producing antimatter. If they succeed, we would probably never have to worry about the energy problem again. There is one problem though, since antimatter is destroyed as soon as it gets in touch with matter, it is very hard to preserve it. At CERN in Switzerland scientist are working on trying to solve this. They have succeeded in creating antimatter, and they have been able to preserve it, but only for some nano seconds.
In the book, scientist has been able to create antimatter, and preserve it. Unfortunately, an evil person steels it and threatens to blow the entire Vatican into small pieces.
Even if this scenario takes place in a fictive book, I do not believe that it is that far away from a possible reality. Because even if I would like to believe the opposite, people that will try to use this kind of power to do something evil will always exist. I am not saying that scientist in CERN should stop trying to create antimatter. If they succeed the energy problem might be solved forever. We should not forget though, that great power can solve world problems, but it can also create huge new ones.
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