Talk:Superweapon Manipulation/@comment-24729606-20190226013242

it occurs to me that (depending on the quantity in question) antimatter would qualify as a superweapon. granted (with exception of fictional protrayals) we have yet to produce antimatter (or if it has been produced it has been keep so well hidden it's existence isn't even rumored yet) but if and when we do it will almost no doubt result in an arms race to make even the nuclear arms race look quaint in comparison. i call antimatter a superweapon for reasons its very name should make obvious. antimatter is the opposite of matter. for example an antielectron would have a positive charge while an antiproton would have a negative charge. i remember hearing that if one 1 (1 lb) of antimatter were combined with an equal amount of matter it would produce 44 megatons of pure energy (or 184,096,000,000,000,000 joules of energy). another possibility would be an obscure form of matter called strange matter. strange matter refers to something i need to explain in quantum terms. the basic unit of mass is the molecule. a molecule is a group of atoms in a more or less stable arrangement. an atom is composed of three elementary particles (protons, neutrons, and electrons). these in turn are composed of still more elementary unit called quarks. quarks come in six varieties (up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom). strange matter is composed almost entirely of strange quarks. like antimatter we have yet to produce strange matter but that is a good thing. strange matter is the zombie apocalypse of matter. strange matter transforms EVERY other form of matter into yet more strange matter. it has been theorized that strange matter could be produced inside stellar remnants called neutron stars (which if true would mean that those neutron stars that have produced it would need to be reclassified as strange stars, literally).