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Antimatter atoms have been trapped for the first time, scientists say.
Researchers at Cern, home of the Large Hadron Collider, have held 38 antihydrogen atoms in place, each for a fraction of a second.
Antihydrogen has been produced before but it was instantly destroyed when it encountered normal matter.
The team, reporting in Nature, says the ability to study such antimatter atoms will allow previously impossible tests of fundamental tenets of physics.
Originally posted by Maxmars
The question of the viability of anti-matter storage will now have to be explored. Our first industrial accidents with this material will be historic!
On the optimistic side, the implications are staggering.
Originally posted by mitman93
Our first industrial accident with this material may very well be our last.
Originally posted by Maxmars
The question of the viability of anti-matter storage will now have to be explored. Our first industrial accidents with this material will be historic!
On the optimistic side, the implications are staggering.
Originally posted by NewlyAwakened
I shudder to think of how many world leaders are hearing this news and thinking "hmm... now THAT could make a hell of a boom!"
ETA: beachguy123,
Here's hoping you're right. I'm not too well-versed in the physics of antimatter; I've always assumed if you could create the stuff you could contain it in a magnetic field in a vaccuum, then turn off the field and boom. I could see how the energy requirements of containing a large enough mass of the stuff could be prohibitive though.
edit on 17-11-2010 by NewlyAwakened because: (no reason given)