Antimatter Containment
Antimatter Containment — Terra Invicta technology. Physicists develop ways to safely store antimatter in a system composed of normal matter.
About Antimatter Containment
Antimatter Containment is a Terra Invicta technology in Energy with a research cost of 10,000.
Physicists develop ways to safely store antimatter in a system composed of normal matter.
For all the breathless stories about mirror realities, antimatter is very real, and indeed is identical to matter in almost every way - save for that an antimatter particle's charge is exactly opposite to that of the corresponding matter particle. For this reason, antimatter is famously incompatible with matter, the two destroying each other in a fierce burst of energy should they meet. It is a pernicious problem to solve in a world made of matter, but with incredible dividends if overcome, for it is precisely the violent reaction between matter and antimatter that could power the engines and weapons of tomorrow. We have for some time been able to create antimatter, but key to further progress is to 'trap' antiparticles to safely store them by preventing their premature self-annihilation. Our recent breakthroughs in both magnetic fields and the direct manipulation of atoms have at last made this possible. Matter and antimatter particles can now be kept at opposite ends of a magnetic trap, nudged into place by oscillating electric fields - and towards each other when the time is right. The further refinement of such containment systems will doubtless soon lead to the creation of drives and reactors of incredible power.