[GreatJoeMcCarthy]

Its a good thing those Europeans have wasted billions of dollars so they could trap 38 sub-atomic particles for a fraction of a second. We wouldn’t want them to waste that money trying to improve the economies of Portugal, Spain, or Ireland, or anything like that. And you know, for just a few dozen billion dollars more those godless scientists will start to come up with an idea how to actually make something useful with their big fancy expensive plaything.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Given that a kilogram of anti-matter could be used to make a 50 megaton bomb (or lots of little bombs), I have some uses.

Storage is one step

Economical production is another.

Apparently, they have confirmed that there are millions of tons of this stuff trapped in the magnetic belt around Earth.

[hinckley buzzard]

Its a good thing those Europeans have wasted billions of dollars so they could trap 38 sub-atomic particles for a fraction of a second

"If I could catch time in a bottle, there's nothing that I'd rather do..."

[Drew68]

Its a good thing those Europeans have wasted billions of dollars so they could trap 38 sub-atomic particles for a fraction of a second. We wouldn’t want them to waste that money trying to improve the economies of Portugal, Spain, or Ireland, or anything like that.

Projects like this used to happen in America back when this country aspired towards greatness. I'd rather see scientific endeavors such as this Large Hadron Collider funded with my tax dollars as opposed to entitlement programs for the stupid and lazy and free drugs for old people.

[varyouga]

Without research of space and non-Newtonian physics, humanity(possibly the only intelligent life in the universe) will meet certain doom on this ever-changing planet.

Unfortunately, I fear that saving us from our own stupidity, greed and laziness will take more effort than crossing the galaxy.