Talk:Anti-Matter Gun

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For those of us who don't know what Wing Commander is, what the heck is a Capital Ship? How strong is the Capital Ship's shield? Put it in terms that anyone can understand.

I'm not familiar with Wing Commander, but this idea is used all throughout science fiction: Capital ship. In Star Trek terms, you could consider the USS Enterprise a capital ship, but a shuttle or runabout would still be a starship, but not a capital ship.

[edit] Anti-Matter Production

From the Wiki article on Anti-matter, under the heading "Artificial production" "...The biggest limiting factor in the production of antimatter is the availability of antiprotons. Recent data released by CERN states that when fully operational their facilities are capable of producing 107 antiprotons per second. Assuming an optimal conversion of antiprotons to antihydrogen, it would take two billion years to produce 1 gram of antihydrogen. Another limiting factor is storage..."

And from the same article under the heading "Fuel":

"...Many experts, however, dispute these claims as being far too optimistic by many orders of magnitude. They point out that in 2004; the annual production of antiprotons at CERN was several picograms at a cost of $20 million. This means to produce 1 gram of antimatter, CERN would need to spend 100 quadrillion dollars and run the antimatter factory for 100 billion years..."

(BTW: this sounds like an inconsistency, but if you read closely it is not)

will someone please tell me why this is a Wikipedia article?