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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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For reference, a single kilogram of antimatter reacting with regular matter would create an explosion only slightly smaller than the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested, and well over a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.