Antimatter.

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Wow, some of the comments at the bottom of the article make me want to vomit.

It's sad that this is what our science education has come to. Oh well, I guess you can't stay on top forever.
 

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So they created antimatter. What does this mean and what will it help us prove. Or is it all just hype?

It proves Gene Rodenberry is actually a time traveler and has seen the future and come back to create a TV series that, unknownst to many, actually started us in the direction to create the things he saw in his future. Predestinational Paradox.

Matter colliding with Antimatter = Warp Drive.
 

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We have been making antimatter for ages. Every PET scan uses positrons (Positron Emission Tomography), and that is only one example.

*positrons are the antimatter equivalent of electrons

Jim Snover
 

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not uncommon as jim has already said.

with incredible magnetic containment large amounts of antimatter suspended in a vacuum (which doesn't exist yet) could be used to generate massive amounts of electricity. Matter/anti-matter annihilation is THE most efficient mass-> energy conversion method known to man.
 

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not uncommon as jim has already said.

with incredible magnetic containment large amounts of antimatter suspended in a vacuum (which doesn't exist yet) could be used to generate massive amounts of electricity. Matter/anti-matter annihilation is THE most efficient mass-> energy conversion method known to man.

I'll energize your mass.
 

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not uncommon as jim has already said.

with incredible magnetic containment large amounts of antimatter suspended in a vacuum (which doesn't exist yet) could be used to generate massive amounts of electricity. Matter/anti-matter annihilation is THE most efficient mass-> energy conversion method known to man.


You are right i dont think its the significance of them creating it, its the significance of them being able to trap it longer than ever before before it destroys itself, long enough to be studied.
 

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Let's perfect controlled fusion first. Just like you should learn to crawl before you walk you should figure out how to build an impulse engine before attempting a warp drive. Or we could just way **** it and go for a quantum slipstream drive.:)
 

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Let's perfect controlled fusion first. Just like you should learn to crawl before you walk you should figure out how to build an impulse engine before attempting a warp drive. Or we could just way **** it and go for a quantum slipstream drive.:)

Cold fusion actually represents a much greater technological barrier than manufacturing and storing anti-matter.
 

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Let's perfect controlled fusion first. Just like you should learn to crawl before you walk you should figure out how to build an impulse engine before attempting a warp drive. Or we could just way **** it and go for a quantum slipstream drive.:)

Nah, lets just figure out how to become the Q Continuum.
 

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