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At CERN, scientists have contained an atom of anti-hydrogen for 1000 seconds. Preserving anti-matter is important, not for warp technology but to see if anti-matter does in fact behave the same as normal matter - as predicted by quantum mechanics and general relativity.
I don't have a cite for this but I'll add it later if I can find it. There is also speculation that anti-matter may emit anti-gravity and that this may be in fact be the unknown repulsive force currently labeled "dark energy".
Scientists have trapped atoms of antimatter for 1,000 seconds, the longest time ever. An illustration shows the antihydrogen atom's path inside the trap and the escape of pions when the atom is annihilated by hitting the trap's walls. ALPHA/CERN
I don't have a cite for this but I'll add it later if I can find it. There is also speculation that anti-matter may emit anti-gravity and that this may be in fact be the unknown repulsive force currently labeled "dark energy".
Scientists have trapped atoms of antimatter for 1,000 seconds, the longest time ever. An illustration shows the antihydrogen atom's path inside the trap and the escape of pions when the atom is annihilated by hitting the trap's walls. ALPHA/CERN
Better antimatter bottle
A team of scientists in Europe has trapped and held atoms of antihydrogen, hydrogen’s antimatter twin, for 1,000 seconds, almost 6,000 times longer than in previous experiments. With their improved antimatter bottle, reported online June 5 in Nature Physics, scientists at the European particle physics laboratory CERN near Geneva may soon be able to test several theories about antimatter. General relativity, for instance, predicts that gravity should have the same effect on antimatter as on matter. The standard model of particle physics suggests that the light given off by antihydrogen should be the same as that given off by hydrogen. —Devin Powell