Antimatter atom trapped for first time

[Kasz216]

highwaystar101 said:

Kasz216 said:

So they had to up and make it eh?

I remember a discovery a year or two back where they thought they discovered some naturally hidden on earth.

No, anti matter has been known about for a long time, but this is the first time that atoms of antimatter have been trapped. That's never been done before, this is a great chance to finally study antimatter atoms.

Usually the antimatter sub atomic particles (anti-protons and positrons) are obliterated by coming into contact with regular matter before it can form an atom, releasing a lot of energy and not giving us time to observe an atom.

Ah, so those were just the particles they found then eh?

Been a while since I read that article... it was something really weird about mining for it.  You know, on second thought it might of been Dark Matter.  That would make a lot more sense.

They ever think up any good theoretical uses for anti-matter outside of "perfect unstopable bomb."