The Alpha project at CERN was able to trap 38 antihydrogen atoms in a vacuum for more than a tenth of a second and up to one sixth of a second. Given they had to fiddle with 10 million antiprotons and 700 million positrons in order to get there, I'm wondering how many petabytes of data they collected in the process.
Of course, I'm also wondering what will eventually come from this research. Driving a car for 100 thousand years on a kilogram of sugar would be cool ;-) ...then again, at the rate we use up natural resources, there would be not much left of the universe in no time.
17.11.2010, 23:58