Scientists at CERN have successfully trapped antimatter atom

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http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europ ... ntimatter/

Great now we are on the road to anti matter bombs. people won't even constrain themselves with that.

I remember reading somewhere that this has already been done before, so CERNs announcement is nothing new.

Actually it is quite new, they didn't just trap antimatter they trapped a whole anti-hydrogen atom, the reason this is significant is hydrogen atom don't have a charge and slip through conventional magnetic fields so can;ts be held in the same way as anti protons or anti electrons.

Antimatter bombs? really? Unless some major advances in antimatter production and storage happen this is not a worry. At current levels it would take several thousand years to accumulate the material needed to create even something close to a small nuclear bomb. Not saying this could ever happen but even if it did what would be the point? we could end humans with nukes a helluva lot quicker.

No we are not. The amount of energy required to make an anti-atom prices it out of practical implementation entirely.

ruveyn

exactly. Far too inefficient.

Cool! That's a major scientific breakthrough...