Multi-Billion dollar experiment.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/46186/

Scientists at CERN were able to create and capture one of the largest mysteries in the universe: antimatter, according to a statement released this week. A team at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland said they produced and trapped antihydrogen atoms, allowing them to carry out further studies on antimatter’s relation to matter. “For reasons that no one yet understands, nature ruled out antimatter," said Professor Jeffrey Hangst of Aarhus University in Denmark in a statement. "It is thus very rewarding, and a bit overwhelming, to ... know that it contains stable, neutral atoms of antimatter. This inspires us to work that much harder to see if antimatter holds some secret.” Some scientists believe that the Big Bang—the event thought to have caused the genesis of the known universe—created equal amounts of antimatter and matter. But scientists are baffled as to why antimatter has seemingly disappeared because most of our universe consists of matter. The CERN facility, which is the largest in the world, is the only lab in the world capable of creating low-energy antiprotons to make up antihydrogen, which consists of an antiproton and a positron. Researchers created 38 antihydrogen atoms and held each of them for up to a tenth of a second—more than enough time for them to be studied, according to CNN. "We could have held them for much longer ... I am just full of joy and relief, it's taken us five years to get here, this is a big milestone," Hangst told the news agency. Scientists at CERN also noted that the Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons experiment (ASACUSA) developed a new approach for producing antihydrogen atoms, details of which will be published at a later date.

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/...100461827.html

Good work nerds.