Antimatter has fueled the imaginations of science fiction enthusiasts for decades, but in reality only miniscule quantities of it have been isolated. In the January 21st, American Physical Society Journal, Physical Review Letters, Japanese researchers describe isolating more antimatter than ever before. Their technique trapped 50 times as many antiprotons from high energy collisions as previous methods could.
Researchers have isolated more antimatter than ever before by corralling over a million antiprotons in an atom trap. They may make possible new precision measurements of basic laws of physics, but probably not for fueling an antimatter engine, which NASA imagines using in a future spaceship.
OK, its not enough for a warp drive yet... but its a start.
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A much larger step for antimatter is in the process of happening. I am in the process of advaning a new model that centrally deals with antimatter. The core hypothesis is that matter and antimatter gravitationally repel. From that one kernal, grows a model that appears to explain predict the creation of the modern Universe as we see it, including previously considered "anomalous" phenomena. A free version of the model is available at http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/u56srb
Debate has been intense because the biggest implication of the new model is that mini black-holes are expected to be stable, which would be calamitous if LHC succeeds in creating man's first black-hole. To date, detractors have failed to locate a single flaw. http://science-community.sciam.com/blog/Hasanuddins-Blog/300005039
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