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Old 11-18-2010, 12:30 AM  
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Common, similar facilities in US already produced antimatter, and it was tested. CERN can produce more particles, thats why they built it.
this isn't a US v Europe thing you know, though that said ours is bigger

what they have done at cern is create antimatter atoms, which IS a first. As they are atoms and not particles, they are more stable and don't simply disintegrate when they collide with regular atoms.
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