Can scientists destroy science?
A bomb even bigger than a hydrogen bomb could be an antimatter bomb.
Almost all of the universe is in the form of matter. Antimatter is not a condition like dark matter.
It can be produced. Today, positron emission tomography scanning is performed in hospitals. These devices work with positively charged electrons.
When antimatter comes together with matter, they annihilate each other and release a huge amount of energy. This reaction becomes 1000 times more efficient than that in an atomic bomb.
The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima contained 64 kilograms of uranium material. However, less than 1 kg of it underwent a fusion reaction. Only 0.6 grams of it turned into pure energy and created an explosion power of 15 kilotons of TNT. Based on this example, half of the same atomic substance, that is, 32 kilograms of matter and What would the situation be like if it were formed with 32 kilograms of antimatter?
In this case, the explosion power would be 1.5 gigatons of TNT. This would be equivalent to detonating 92 thousand atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and 28 Tsar bombs, the largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated on Earth. Fortunately, producing antimatter is very difficult and very difficult. It is an expensive procedure.
To produce 1 gram of antimatter, it is necessary to spend 62 trillion dollars. This money is equivalent to 2.5 times the gross domestic product of the USA and 70 times that of Turkey.
In addition, since antimatter is extremely willing to react with matter, even if it can be produced, an extremely protected environment must be created to prevent it from reacting with matter. This situation creates a very dangerous environment.
Even if we think that everything can be done, there is no environment large enough to throw such a bomb. This situation teaches us something new. War experts state that the use of large bombs is not efficient. Because such large and destructive bombs completely destroy the area where they are dropped, the country that threw the bomb It creates a situation that does not control the purpose and does not provide profit. For this reason, tactical nuclear bombs have emerged. These bombs are less powerful but tactically effective. It is thought that this way it will be more effective as a weapon of war.
As a result, the range of dangerous products is increasing depending on the development of science. In fact, this situation exposes both the science that produces it and the scientists who discovered it to the danger of extinction.