Talk:Anti-Matter Gun

Proposed Deletion

I have proposed this article for deletion as it describes no information that does not exist more appropriately elsewhere on Wikipedia, and it is poorly written and contains factual inaccuracies. If anyone wants a more detailed explanation, I will be happy to justify why I believe this article needs to be removed. Elyssaen (talk) 17:02, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My proposed deletion was removed without discussion. The edit comment explains that the article has been proposed to be merged, and so cannot be deleted. It would seem that the discussion to merge saw no discussion, and so it would be acceptable to merge the articles: "If there is clear agreement or silence, with the proposal by consensus, proceed with the merger". However, there is no information in this article which is either not already covered in the article we are suggesting moving it to, or that would not be swiftly deleted on that article for being irrelevant.

This is why the article should be deleted. Please do contribute in the Talk page in the future! Elyssaen (talk) 11:29, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There has been no response to my comments here, and I was nearly dragged into an edit war. I have 'merged' this page into Antimatter weapon, but no content was actually merged because there was nothing on this page not redundant. In other words, the article has basically been deleted, as I had proposed.Elyssaen (talk) 19:19, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Anti-Matter Production

From the Wiki article on Anti-matter, under the heading "Artificial production" "...The biggest limiting factor in the production of antimatter is the availability of antiprotons. Recent data released by CERN states that when fully operational their facilities are capable of producing 107 antiprotons per second. Assuming an optimal conversion of antiprotons to antihydrogen, it would take two billion years to produce 1 gram of antihydrogen. Another limiting factor is storage..."

And from the same article under the heading "Fuel":

"...Many experts, however, dispute these claims as being far too optimistic by many orders of magnitude. They point out that in 2004; the annual production of antiprotons at CERN was several picograms at a cost of $20 million. This means to produce 1 gram of antimatter, CERN would need to spend 100 quadrillion dollars and run the antimatter factory for 100 billion years..."

(BTW: this sounds like an inconsistency, but if you read closely it is not)

will someone please tell me why this is a Wikipedia article?