> > > > Now, I may be missing something (and if I am, by all means, fill me in), but what is the point of this? Is this just science for its own sake, or is there an application I just don't see?
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> > > well off the top of my non-scientific mind, discovering how to make enough energy to create a universe would make a rather powerful stardrive. . . FTL travel may be possible with that much energy. I remember it takes a BOATLOAD of energy to make antimatter, and that physicists have now said that a matter/antimatter mix may be the key to FTL travel (how DID star trek get that right???) . .so if you could harness that much power and use it to make antimatter. . .
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> > Umm... that thing is huge. The pipes were several miles long. That makes it a fairly impractical anything-drive.
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> > Dar "Bite me, I'm HUGE!" ien
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> no, you don't use THAT as your star drive. you use that to generate the power necessary to make the antimatter to fuel your matter/antimatter star drive.

How do you transport the antimatter from there to the star-drive? Antimatter canna really be transported... you'd kinda have to generate it on-site.