Don't like Hydrogen, try Anti-Hydrogen antimatter by CERN

Antimatter antihydrogen captured

Scientists have created antimatter in the form of antihydrogen, demonstrating how it's possible to capture and release it.

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The development could help researchers devise laboratory experiments to learn more about this strange substance, which mostly disappeared from the universe shortly after the Big Bang 14 billion years ago.

Paul Dirac

Antimatter, first predicted by physicist Paul Dirac in 1931

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A strong magnet was critical to trapping antihydrogen atoms by using their small magnetic moments. This simplified version shows how the north and south poles of strategically arranged magnets can immobilize neutral antimatterthat has a magnetic moment equivalent to a tiny bar magnet. Credit: Katie

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38 antihydrogen atoms created

In a new study, physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva were able to create 38 antihydrogen atoms and preserve each for more than one-tenth of a second. The project was part of the ALPHA (Antihydrogen Laser PHysics Apparatus) experiment, an international collaboration that includes physicists from the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

The antihydrogen atoms are composed of a positron (an antimatter electron) orbiting an antiproton nucleus.

source: livescience.com

Reader comment:

ultimate rocket fuel, since it's 100 percent efficient %u2013 all of the mass is converted to energy. By contrast, thermonuclear bombs only use about 1 percent." I do think this is an amazing discovery. But we humans are stupid, this will most likely be used to create weapons, very powerful weapons. I don't remember a single politician that cared about space travel for humanitarian reasons, but I do remember many trying to build up weapons. None the less hopefully it will be put to good use and out of hands of politically motivated groups.