News Release 13 - Antimatter Solar Explosions
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
On July 23, 2002,
world-class researchers used NASA's Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar
Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI)
spacecraft took high-energy X-rays and gamma radiation pictures of the sun
flares. The solar flares, among the most powerful explosions in the solar
system, resulted from antimatter
colliding with the sun. The antimatter came from a sungrazer comet. When matter and antimatter come together, energy is
produce according to Einstein's equation of mass times the speed of light
squared or E = mc2.
Based upon the high-energy X-rays
and gamma radiation, approximately 2 x 10
31
ergs of energy was released from the 11,000 metric ton antimatter sungrazer
comet that was about 22 meters in diameter. The energy
could have supplied the United States’ energy
needs for 10,000 years.
- A few hundred pounds of antimatter could
be used a source of energy to replace the billions of tons of coal, billions
of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas. The fossil
fuels could be used to make trillions of dollars of products to bring every
country into the 21st century. The United States achieves Energy
Independence. Millions of business and jobs could be created.
- The astonishing fact is that the energy
in a gram of antimatter is equivalent to a Saturn V rocket to the moon. In the
future, People will be able to travel in spacecraft to space stations
orbiting the earth in minutes, colonies on the moon in hours, the planets in
days, and with advance technology, the stars in weeks.
The following are some of the
numerous of news reports:
- NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Sep 2, 2003, Antimatter Factory on Sun Yields Clues to Solar
Explosions,
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/news-release/releases/2003/03-84.htm,
- UC Berkeley News, Sep 2, 2003,
RHESSI satellite offers clues about how solar explosions
act as particle accelerators,
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/09/02_flares.shtml
- NASA, Sep 3, 2003
Antimatter Factory on Sun Yields
Clues to Solar Explosions,
http://www1.nasa.gov/lb/vision/universe/solarsystem/rhessi_antimatter.html
- Spaceflight Now, Sep 3, 2003,
Antimatter Factory on Sun Yields Clues to Solar Explosions,
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0309/03antimatter/
- Red Nova, Sep 3, 2003,
Antimatter Factory on Sun Yields Clues to Solar Explosions,
http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/1/2003/09/04/story001.html
- Space Daily, Sep 4, 2003,
Antimatter Factory on Sun Yields Clues to Solar Explosions,
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/antimatter-03a.html
- Universe Today, Sep 4, 2003,
Solar Flares Shuffle Antimatter Around,
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/solar_flares_antimatter.html
- Brightsurf, Sep 4, 2003,
Antimatter Factory on Sun Yields Clues to Solar Explosions,
http://www.brightsurf.com/news/sept_03/GSFC_news_090403.php
- SpaceRef,
Sep 4, 2003, Antimatter Factory
on Sun Yields Clues to Solar Explosions,
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=12466
- Scientific America, Sep 5, 2002,
Solar Flare Serves Up Antimatter Surprises,
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0006961D-9FCA-1F57-905980A84189EEDF,
- Newstrove, September 24, 2003,
Antimatter Factory on Sun Yields Clues to Solar Explosions,
http://antimatter.newstrove.com/
I am looking forward to the results
of the NASA's
Solar System Exploration
Subcommittee meeting in Washington, DC on October 23-24, 2003.
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