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Exciting_Telephone65 t1_jbzdcz4 wrote

Reply to comment by ChromaticDragon in As they still have a neutral charge, can antineutrons replace neutrons in a regular atom? by Oheligud

>Trouble is that you have to keep it separated from regular matter

I'm now imagining a wooden cupboard at the lab with a piece of paper on it saying ONLY ANTIMATTER HERE

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auraseer t1_jbzysa8 wrote

Then you get some bored grad student who doesn't read the signs, goes to put a liter jar of antineutrons in the wrong cabinet, and causes a massive explosion that destroys half the continent.

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ElReptil t1_jc1vqqh wrote

>and causes a massive explosion that destroys half the continent

That kind of depends on how many antineutrons are actually in a liter jar, which I guess could be anywhere from a handful in a magnetic trap to a chunk with the density of nuclear matter.

Fun fact: the energy released by the annihilation of one liter of antimatter at that density (roughly a hundred billion tons) is weirdly close to the gravitational binding energy of Earth.

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