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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:26:42 GMT
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- In article <C0IIG5.J1I.1@cs.cmu.edu> ganderson@nebula.decnet.lockheed.com writes:
- >How can
- >we talk about the performance of antimatter propulsion without knowing
- >the mass fuel ratio? How much hardware does it take to contain a "tank" of
- >antimatter (magnetic fields, etc.)? ...
-
- Open question; the detailed engineering has not been done. As usual, you
- could make a wide variety of assumptions, from cautious-first-generation
- to ambitious-long-term-possibilities.
-
- >How do they contain the antimatter before injection into the collider? If
- >I remember correctly they have it going around in a racetrack in a holding
- >facility, no???
-
- That's right. They work with antiprotons, not neutral antimatter atoms,
- and they never do slow them all the way down to zero.
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