[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by Nortilus

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...d-2293605.html

Give them time...I know they can do it... "insert Star Trek Theme"

17 minutes is alot better than 172 milliseconds...keep up the good work Cern. Make us proud to be human.

Yes, they'll figure out how to hold antimatter indefinitely...in time. But there's a huge difference between 300 atoms and the 7000 tons of the stuff needed to power the Enterprise

It's a matter of scale....and also of economies of scale. They'll have to come up with a way of producing the stuff relatively cheaply. Right now, it's just too expensive to produce any sort of really usable quantities of antimatter.