I found this. A major new form of propulsion has just graduated from thenever-never land of science fiction and has now become a serioustopic for scientific and engineering investigation. In the pastit was called antimatter propulsion, but to emphasize thedifference between past fiction and present reality, I prefer tocall it antiproton annihilation propulsion Comments? http://www.transorbital.net/Library/D001_S01.html#top
The idea was much expanded with pictures in popular science many months ago. As long as you can collect, bottle up anti-protons and safely transport it to the rocket engine.... Good idea, I think long way off...
Hi Esp, you may want to have a look at these links, I noticed your info. was 5 years old from 97. <A HREF="http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html" target=new><FONT COLOR=blue size=+1> Antimatter factory called CERN</FONT></A> <A HREF="http://www.fnal.gov/" target=new><FONT COLOR=blue size=+1> Antimatter factory called fermilab </FONT></A> One of the current uses for antimatter is the new anti-amatter microscope. <A HREF="http://www.nature.com/nsu/010802/010802-8.html" target=new><FONT COLOR=blue size=+1> Antimatter microscope </FONT></A>