It sounds like something out of Star Trek but scientists have been able to trap antimatter for 17 minutes, improving on an experiment last Fall that was able to trap antimatter for merely fractions of seconds.
So just how difficult is it to trap antimatter for study? Just like in Star Trek, the combination of matter and antimatter particles leads to the annihilation of both and the production of a small flash of energy. Thus, to successfully trap antimatter, researchers use magnetic fields to contain antiatoms. When they turn off the field, the resulting annihilation events–recorded by a special detector–clue the scientists into just how many antiatoms are left after a set period of containment time.
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My brain didn't process the headline properly and I read it as: "Scientists Trap Animator for Almost 17 Minutes". I couldn't figure out why scientists would have such a hard time... those pixar guys must be pretty wile-y.
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Hopefully they built the warp core ejector mechanism first.
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The Vulcans will be monitoring....
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