A list of the seven most expensive substances on Earth.

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      “Your printer has detected 3rd party antimatter. Please only refill with Genuine HP™ AntiMatter cartridges. Authorities have been notified and are enroute to your residence.”

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        Planes have to stop at the equator so everyone can get their matter jars ready to switch before they convert naturally

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          Ackshually, the plane is the matter jar. It’s just super uncomfortable for the passengers if the pilot doesn’t get the maneuver just right in the air, so they land and do it there instead. Sometimes they’ll fly along the equator and do it slowly if they’re going across the Pacific, e.g. USA -> Australia, instead of USA -> Chile

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      It’s a subscription model for the artificial stuff. The natural version is dirt cheap. It’s always the middle man with these modern services, I tell you.

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    Why do people post things like this? And who cares? It doesn’t matter; it antimatters.

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      This is just an irresponsible post.

      Be careful putting matter and antimatter so close in a sentence.

      You’ll kill us all.

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      The reason why it’s called antimatter is because the polarity of the nucleus and electrons are reversed. There are also antineutrons that have a neutral charge. It all still has mass, but will obliterate upon contact with regular matter

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        There are also anti neutrons that have a neutral charge

        Expanding onto this, it raises the question: how is a neutron different to an anti-neutron?

        A neutron can be though of a particle composed of 2 down and 1 up quarks and lot of gluon’s that keep everything together. The gluon is its own antiparticle, so the antineutron has 2 anti-down quarks, 1 anti-up quarks and gluons. This way it becomes a different particle despite also being of neutral charge.

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      yes, its the same as normal, its just the “Spin of the particles that are opposite”, if you get down deeper, the quarks are opposite.

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    1 gram of antimatter stored? Forget the explosion—imagine the insurance premium on that thing.

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    Just wait until we start having it manufactured in a cheap labor market. The prices will plummet! It’ll likely be mostly fake, but that’s the price we pay for cheap antimatter.

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    I thought it was HP inkjet printer cartridges? I think that’s around $60 trillion per gram, isn’t it?

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    That’s so stupid: You can make antimatter at home for tree fiddy. Just buy a bunch of bananas and wait for the potassium to decay into positrons. EZ

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      Tree fid- WAIT THIS AINT NO SCIENCE MAN ITS THE GOD DAMN LOCH NESS MONSTER

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      This leads to a modified version of the uncertainty principle: either you have a banana and can know the size of something or you have positrons and are unable to measure size.

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    I didn’t even know we could get a gram of anti-matter, cause don’t they make it proton by proton, and they also don’t exist for that long?

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    Ridiculous! Tariffs on antimatter now!

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    I thought element 118 was like $60 quadrillion a gram because they only manged to make like 3 atoms of it.

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    • 2.05x10^21 atoms in a gram of element 118
    • 5 atoms synthesized so far

    Assuming they somehow managed to spend only $1 making every atom, that’s $2,050,000,000,000,000,000,000 per gram.