Ron Kean <ronkean@juno.com> writes:
> I think that a matter-antimatter bomb would exhibit the same efficiency
Unfortunately the containment problem will likely cause scaling
effects. My guess is that the container / antimatter ratio will go up
a lot as you shrink the device.
As a theoretical assassin, I would go for poisons rather than nuclear
weapons for my mosquitos.
> (energy per unit mass) regardless of size. A single proton meeting a
> single antiproton would release the same amount of energy per gram as
> would a larger matter-anti-matter sample.
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