Answer by The Square-Cube Law for Most efficient way to covertly obtain...
A 100g banana has about 0.358g worthy of Potassium in it.From Wikipedia, 0.0117% is unstable. Round it up to 0.00004 grams of decaying Potassium.Also from the Wiki, in 1g of K, you get 31 atoms...
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Almost Anything Else Would Be EasierWith the science-based tag in place, you're pretty much scuppered. Making antimatter is hard. When we're assembling anti-hydrogen, we make an anti-proton and attach...
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ContextSuppose that, sometime in the future, terrorists and conspicuously-evil nations and politicians are tired of using regular old nuclear bombs to destroy their rivals' cities - cities on the...
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(Comment, but too long)You are falling for an error that shows up in an awful lot of science fiction--that antimatter is somehow a superweapon.An antimatter boom is slightly more destructive than a...
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Small digression: Antimatter bombs are such a waste... You could get destructive results by much simpler and cheaper (and easier to hide) ways, like accelerating smallish asteroid to near-relativistic...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter#Antihydrogen_atomsDisclaimer: All this is purely science fiction speculation.All things get cheaper, smaller and thus accelerators get smaller too....
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Today, antimatter is counted in atoms and not in grams. There is no way to produce any viable quantity. It is not something, for which could develop the technology but do not have the money. It is...
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Have scientists on the insideThe largest difficulty is to find a way to stockpile a kg of antimatter. This can be made easy by science! Antimatter can be an interesting part of research. Antimatter...
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The problems with antimatter:It is expensive to produce, and when it is produced in particle accelerators it is very high energy. Any terrestrial production facility would very likely be discovered...
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Don't make and ship; produce on siteIntense laser beams incident on matter can produce a lot of positrons-more than the sources you mention.The baddies just need to identify a suitable target and blast...
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This is a frame challenge.Science as we know it would make creating such amount of anti-matter effectively impossible sans everyone noticing or being incredibly impractical, but it can be done so by...
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