Anit-mater question

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From: Jonathan Briggs (jbriggs@bentleyschool.net)
Date: Fri May 06 2005 - 09:26:31 PDT 

Subject: Anit-mater question
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 09:26:31 -0700
Message-ID: <74EB580CA84DEB47B3EE9DE1F4379495687A9A@bs-pdc.bentleyschool.net>
From: "Jonathan Briggs" <jbriggs@bentleyschool.net>

Hey Pinholers,

I got a question from a student the other that was interesting.

1) What does an anti-mater, mater, explosion look like
        -shouldn't it only put out gamma rays that go through materials quite easily
        -does it generate lots of heat locally or where those gamma rays get absorbed
        -how is it different from a nuclear bomb explosion(fission)
        -how is it different from a hydrogen bomb explosion(fusion)

It seemed to me that it would get quite hot and perhaps that was due to gamma rays scattering off of nearby molecules? But I wasn't sure. This question came about through the book Angel's and Demons
-jonathan

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