Antimatter Development Program – Casey Handmer's blog
Printable PDF of this post. “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist…
Printable PDF of this post. “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Our vision for the future has humans traveling between planets much faster than our ancestors sailed across oceans, but no existing rocket technology can achieve that. We’re going to need something significantly more energetic, and antimatter is the key. In August 2024, I wrote a primer examining the meri
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