This is the most expensive item in the world, its price exceeds diamonds
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| This super premium material is priced at IDR 900 trillion per gram. (Photo: University of Oxford) |
- Most people assume that diamonds or gold are the most expensive materials in the world, but they are all wrong. There is a super premium material costing IDR 900 trillion per gram that has just been revealed.
If you've ever watched the Tom Hanks film Angels and Demons, which is based on Dan Brown's novel, this super premium material has been discussed. The most expensive material in the world is actually something called antimatter, which is almost the same as normal matter except that it has the opposite electrical charge.
In Angels and Demons, if they come into contact with anything made of matter everything will explode. Because these two opposing styles don't like each other. This momentum of antimatter formation is very rare and makes it expensive.
The Unilad page reported, Friday (29/3/2024), that in 1999 scientists from the United States space agency NASA estimated that the cost of making one gram of antihydrogen or antimatter was around IDR 900 trillion per gram and that it would take 100 billion years to make it.
Another reason for the high price of anti-matter is because the technology involved in its manufacture uses the CERN Large Hadron Collider which is still rare. According to Science To Go, it costs around US$1 billion per year to run, with electricity costs reaching US$23.5 million per year.
For particle collisions to occur to create antimatter, they need to reach speeds up to 99.99 percent of the speed of light. This process requires enough electrical power to power a large city, so that explains the staggering electricity bills at CERN.
Steven Farmer, author of the book Strange Chemistry in 2017, also believes that this material has the same and stable value. This price is considered quite impressive because the world financial body IMF projects that the value of the entire world economy will reach more than thousands of trillions by the end of 2022.
But while it is very expensive it is also a very useful substance – despite its highly unstable nature. If harnessed in a harmless way, antimatter acts as a tremendous energy source. So, some people believe that antimatter can fuel intergalactic travel.
However, for now, small amounts of antimatter are used in positron emission tomography (PET) scanners, a form of medical imaging used by doctors to look at certain functions such as blood flow.