Antimatter Trapped For The First Time

[Weps]

Get ready for that warp drive spaceship, because we are now one step closer to it. After creating antihydrogen in their antiproton decelerator, scientists at CERN have been able to trap antimatter for the first time in history.

This a big step. First, it gets humanity closer to understanding one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe: What happened to all the antimatter that was created during the Big Bang? In theory, matter and antimatter were created in equal parts during the Big Bang. However, the latter disappeared shortly thereafter. Or at least, we can't seem to find it. The spokesman for CERN's ALPHA experiment?Jeffrey Hangst of Aarhus University, Denmark?says that trapping these atoms was a bit of an overwhelming experience:

http://gizmodo.com/5692614/antimatter-trapped-for-the-first-time

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1307522

[iTails]

I really wish this would go towards developing new technologies to reach out further into the solar system, but with the world the way it is, I don't think that is going to happen.

[Weps]

Gotta see what we can blow up first, then we blow someone up, then maybe we can use it for practical applications.

[NuclearMutant]

Call me crazy...  (Crazy!)  I'm pretty sure a anti-matter bomb would be a one-time use thing.  More so than a nuclear weapon.  I actually don't know what the practical application of a matter / anti-matter reaction would be.  I'm assuming lots of energy.