But actually, this is just me linking in some interesting article about antimatter and the insane cost of it.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/1999/prop12apr99_1/

"Right now, antimatter is the most expensive substance on Earth, about $62.5 trillion a gram ($1.75 quadrillion an ounce)."

I never knew it was that expensive.

Can we even MAKE a whole gram on antimatter at this point? I didn't think we could.

Yeah we can. The only thing holding us back is funding. The LHC actually just isolated a antimatter particle which I think I linked earlier. That could be a cheaper way to make it but I honestly don't know.

I had heard or read somewhere they were making anti matter particles in the Hadron Collider.

"'Fusion missions would need just micrograms to reach the Oort cloud,' the deep freeze of comets beyond the orbit of Pluto, Gerrish said. The antimatter load would cost about $60 million. Reaching the stars would require metric tons."

you mean the antimatter that was stable for all of .... what was it? .001 seconds?

you mean the antimatter that was stable for all of .... what was it? .001 seconds?

Apparently they can isolate and store it now using powerful magnetic fields. The cost is astronomical though.

Yeah we can. The only thing holding us back is funding. The LHC actually just isolated a antimatter particle which I think I linked earlier. That could be a cheaper way to make it but I honestly don't know.

And that's what I'm talking about. In my mind, it would take sooooo long to store up and create a whole GRAM considering right now we can only isolate individual particles of the stuff, let alone have the capacity to store them together to create a whole gram.

The technology will come eventually I'm sure, but right now we definitely can't make a gram anytime soon I don't think.