Anti-Matter

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makes no
difference.

Scientists at CERN in Geneva are working on a device called the
LEAR (low energy anti-proton ring) in an attempt to slow the velocity of
the anti-protons to a billionth of their normal speeds. The slowing of
the anti-protons and positrons, which normally travel at a velocity of
that near the speed of light, is neccesary so that they have a chance of
meeting and combining into anti-hydrogen.1

The problems with research in the field of anti-matter is that when
the anti-matter elements touch matter elements they annihilate each other.
The total combined mass of both elements are released in a spectacular
blast of energy. Electrons and positrons come together and vanish into
high-energy gamma rays (plus a certain number of harmless
neutrinos, which pass through whole planets without effect). Hitting
ordinary matter, 1 kg of anti-matter explodes with the force of up to
43 million tons of TNT - as though ...

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