To expand upon the question - in an atmosphere, would a beam of pure antimatter (disregarding technical difficulties creating such a beam or passing it through a medium) interact with the matter in the atmosphere to annihilate each other and release energy in the form of a blast?
Just had a thought that if the counterparts of antimatter and matter - say hydrogen and anti-hydrogen or proton-antiproton met in such a way, would it create such an outcome?
Obviously, if its a beam, then the density of particles in the beam matters a lot for the annihilation rate and so does the density and composition of the atmosphere.
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