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Old 09-05-2017, 09:59 PM   #62
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Default Re: [Spaceships] Anti-Lithium for Drives – Does this work?

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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2 View Post
ISTR a speculation from decades ago that it might be possible, at sub-cryogenic temperatures, for matter and antimatter to come into contact and not react. Was that discredited since, or it is still debated?
I have never heard of this idea. All the calculations I've done on the rates of antimatter annihilation (admittedly, this was all with electrons and positrons) have had a well defined and positive limit as temperature approaches zero.

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