13th May 2010, 4:19 PM
lazy, simply put, I'm sorry to say but that's wrong. Stars and nuclear weapons don't make "pure energy". It's electromagnetic radiation, light, in very dangeriously highly energetic forms. There's also the obvious kinetic energy of the blast wave, and heat energy, but not "pure energy".
And anti-matter is not pure energy, it's just matter with a reversed charge. It could more accurately be called "negative matter" with our matter being "positive". Basically in antimatter, the protons are negatively charged and the electrons are positively charged.
You may be thinking of dark matter, but that's not supposed to be pure energy either. It's supposed to be an exotic form of matter with a lot of unknown properties, but what properties it DOES have are that it's only interaction with other matter is gravitational. Neutrinos also pass through matter, but in that case it's a matter of size. They're so small the odds of ever contacting the actual "bits" in normal matter are almost but not literally nonexistant. You'd need a lightyear of lead to have a good chance of impact with something in there.
Fusion would be amazing, but cold fusion just isn't going to happen. It'll need to be hot. There's no chemical reaction that's just going to make that occur. It needs insane heat and pressure, like the inside of a star, or really massive devices like the Tokavak (I think I spelled that wrong). There isn't just "a guy" who "discovered" cold fusion. Every few years another new upstart claims to have invented it, gets tons of investors really hyped up, takes their money, delays and delays and delays, and then just vanishes with nothing accomplished. It's a scam.
And anti-matter is not pure energy, it's just matter with a reversed charge. It could more accurately be called "negative matter" with our matter being "positive". Basically in antimatter, the protons are negatively charged and the electrons are positively charged.
You may be thinking of dark matter, but that's not supposed to be pure energy either. It's supposed to be an exotic form of matter with a lot of unknown properties, but what properties it DOES have are that it's only interaction with other matter is gravitational. Neutrinos also pass through matter, but in that case it's a matter of size. They're so small the odds of ever contacting the actual "bits" in normal matter are almost but not literally nonexistant. You'd need a lightyear of lead to have a good chance of impact with something in there.
Fusion would be amazing, but cold fusion just isn't going to happen. It'll need to be hot. There's no chemical reaction that's just going to make that occur. It needs insane heat and pressure, like the inside of a star, or really massive devices like the Tokavak (I think I spelled that wrong). There isn't just "a guy" who "discovered" cold fusion. Every few years another new upstart claims to have invented it, gets tons of investors really hyped up, takes their money, delays and delays and delays, and then just vanishes with nothing accomplished. It's a scam.
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