Elon Musk to Develop Antimatter-Powered Rockets; Few Amount of Antiparticles Enough to Reach Mars?

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Elon Musk is allegedly planning to create new antimatter-powered rockets or spacecraft. If this is true, the new spaceships could be more efficient and reach other planets on the solar system faster than SpaceX and the ones used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Elon Musk to Develop Antimatter-Powered Rockets; Few Amount of Antiparticles Enough to Reach Mars?
Engineer and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk of The Boring Company listens as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel talks about constructing a high speed transit tunnel at Block 37 during a news conference on June 14, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Musk said he could create a 16-passenger vehicle to operate on a high-speed rail system that could get travelers to and from downtown Chicago and O'hare International Airport under twenty minutes, at speeds of over 100 miles per hour. Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images

The popular tech CEO of Tesla and SpaceX is the one who confirmed it after replying to a tweet posted by the World of Engineering.

"Term of the day: Antimatter rocket. Definition: is a proposed class of rockets that use antimatter as their power source," said @engineers_feed via its official Twitter account.

"Ultimately, yes," replied Elon Musk.

However, Elon Musk's rumored antimatter-powered spaceships could take a very long period before they can fully operate outside Earth. Why? Because antimatter doesn't exist.

What is antimatter?

According to Futurism's latest report, antimatter is composed of antiparticles. Right now, there are no physicists and other scientists that were able to produce the antimatter.

Elon Musk to Develop Antimatter-Powered Rockets; Few Amount of Antiparticles Enough to Reach Mars?
In this concept illustraion provided by NASA, NASA’s Perseverance rover fires up its descent stage engines as it nears the Martian surface to land in the area known as Jezero crater on the planet Mars. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, paving the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith. Photo illustration by NASA via Getty Images

It only exists and movies and comics such as "Marvel." CMS.CERN explained that antimatter was proposed back in 1928 by Paul Dirac, a very popular physicist. His idea was to combine quantum mechanics and Einstein's special relativity to produce a complete description of electron interactions.

It is rumored to be better than the most efficient fuel today. If Elon Musk is able to produce the antimatter, he can use it to power his next-gen spaceships and reach different space bodies in no time.

How efficient is an antimatter-powered rocket?

Back in 2006, NASA explained that a spacecraft only needs a few milligrams of antimatter to reach Mars in a shorter period. But, some physicists estimated that it would take ten more years before antimatter is developed.

Antimatter is considered the mirror-image version of normal matter since it has the same appearance and structure. As of the moment, it is still unclear if SpaceX is really working on a rocket that will use antimatter. If you want to know more details, all you need to do is click here.

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