Something Interesting: Antimatter

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          Not too long ago, I was watching a video on YouTube. It was about something called antimatter. Some people know about antimatter, but some people don't. For the people who don't know, an antimatter atom is the opposite of a normal atom. A normal atom has a positive nucleus, and negative electrons. Since antimatter is the opposite of a normal atom, it basically has a negatively charged nucleus and a positively charged electrons.
          The weird/cool thing is that just one gram of antimatter is very expensive. You might think that very expensive for one gram is like 1 million dollars. But, it's actually $25 BILLION. In the video I was watching, it said that antimatter is very useful, but is also hard to contain. If an antimatter atom comes into contact with a normal atom, so much energy is released that it could blow up and destroy the surrounding area. Something that I don't understand from the video is how the scientist contained the antimatter, since everything else is made from normal matter, though it said that it is very hard to even contain a little bit of antimatter.
          Antimatter could be used in warfare. Since antimatter basically explodes when it touches a normal atom, it can be very lethal. In the video, it said that a gram of antimatter can destroy a part of New York. There are many ways that antimatter can be used in a bad way.
          Positive reason, that was said in the video, for making antimatter is for space travel. The rockets we have today don't go fast enough to reach another star within a reasonable period of time. It will take thousands of years to reach the nearest star with the rockets we have today. The antimatter could make rockets go way faster than how fast we can go today. Antimatter could be the future of space technology, and may be the only possible way we can continue further into space travels.
        The video I watched was made by RealLifeLore. I really like watching his videos and they are very interesting.
Video I Watched: 
Why Only 1 Gram Of This Material Is Worth $25 Billion Dollars

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