Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Retric 1741 days ago
Yes, assuming all those positrons started out in your stomach, the actual antimatter wouldn’t add significant energy in comparison. The charge balance stays the same when positrons and electrons collide. So, bigger boom than just an anti mater sandwich, not that you would notice the difference.

Relativity actually makes this worse as the electrons are limited to the speed of light but the charge can keep dumping ever more energy into them until their far enough apart.

Similar idea, just larger scale: https://what-if.xkcd.com/140/