http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081117193019.htm

We now have the ability to create billions of anti-matter particles in the laboratory by shooting a very intense laser through a millimeter thick piece of gold

"In the experiment, the laser ionizes and accelerates electrons, which are driven right through the gold target. On their way, the electrons interact with the gold nuclei, which serve as a catalyst to create positrons. The electrons give off packets of pure energy, which decays into matter and anti-matter"

Now that we have more efficient ways to mass produce it, can we store it? I've heard we can store it in a vacuum and suspend it with an electromagnetic field to keep it from interacting with ordinary matter

But how can we since we cannot create a true vacuum here on Earth? Also when matter and anti-matter come into contact with each other they completely annihilate one another and converts into pure energy

Studying anti matter could give us much insight into how the universe came to be and why there is far more matter than anti-matter in the universe today

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132855.htm

Why there is more matter than antimatter.

Yay Angels and Demons

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btw a billion, and even trillion particles is hardly fucking any.
remember a mole (6.0*10^23 particles, where as a billion is barely 1*10^9) of gold barely weighs 200 grams
im sure this is still a great leap as to the number of particles made, and the number of particles needed to study antimatter, but we still have a long way to go before having the need to store it

It's an inefficient way of energy storing anyway. Until we find a 'antimatter-mine' somewhere in space, it is a energy resource not worth of using, simply because it uses way more power to create it than it delivers. And you won't ever get more energy out of antimatter-matter annihilation than creating. First law of thermodynamics here.

you realize thats going to happen with any reaction right? until we can make enough if it at efficient rates, it wont be worth using. all we need to do is find the bessemer process equivilent of making anti matter
if we ever do, then we can techinically turn any kind of matter into energy by throwing it into some antimatter. if this day ever comes, well finally have a use for our landfills

hehe. God didn't create the earth. just the collision that led to it


just kidding but really, wouldn't the creation of antimatter completely violate the law that is ingrained in middle school kids of conservation of energy? or is there a perfectly reasonable explanation for the manipulation of it rather than the creation...

the "creation" of antimatter is not creating it out of nothing. there is a reaction to it.
p.s. the law of conservation of energy can theoretically be broken

of course, you know all about that