[NormsRevenge]

GreenPeace, The ACLU and CAIR immediately called for a release of the atom and halt to any further trapping of poor innocent antimatter atoms.

[TexasCajun]

Playing with fire, are they not?

I've watched Star Trek enough to know what happens when matter and anti-matter collide. :)

[hosepipe]

On the other-hand someone may be watching too much Star Trek..

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Antimatter atoms have been trapped for the first time, scientists say. “

LET IT GO! It was born free and should live free!

[The Comedian]

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Seruzawa]

She kenna take any more Keptain! She’s ginna blow!

[Talisker]

These scientists better be damn careful.

Matter:

Antimatter:

[GreatJoeMcCarthy]

Its a good thing those Europeans have wasted billions of dollars so they could trap 38 sub-atomic particles for a fraction of a second. We wouldn’t want them to waste that money trying to improve the economies of Portugal, Spain, or Ireland, or anything like that. And you know, for just a few dozen billion dollars more those godless scientists will start to come up with an idea how to actually make something useful with their big fancy expensive plaything.

[r9etb]

So these guys can be trapped in a magnetic field, just like normal matter.

Which is pretty cool, but it raises an interesting question about magnetic fields .... what are they, exactly, that they can interact with both matter and anti-matter without destroying it?

[Bratch]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks NormsRevenge.

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[Paradox]

No big deal. I’ve been collecting tons of Doesn’t-Matter since I was 12...