Storing Antimatter
For over 20 years, world-class laboratories at Fermilab, United States, and CERN, Europe, have been using accelerators for making, storing and colliding antimatter. Carlo Rubbia and Simon Van der Meer received the Nobel Prize for their contributions to the making, storing and colliding antimatter and discovering the W and Z bosons. Scientists have confirmed the Standard Model that unified the weak and electromagnetic theories into electroweak theory.
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Antimatter is storied in a vacuum and electromagnetic fields to keep the antimatter from coming in contact with matter. Making antimatter is extremely expensive. For example, a gram would cost over $60 trillion a gram or twice the World's Gross National Product.
However, with the discovery that comets are natural sources of antimatter, the antimatter price is the cost of retrieving the antimatter being blasted off the comet's surface plus making the antimatter energy sources.
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