Physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva have created the stuff of Star Trek for the first time ever, genuine antimatter.A 17-member team announced the production and preservation of 38 antihydrogen atoms. Physicists Emilio Segre and Owen Chamberlain of the University California, Berkeley, earned the 1959 Nobel Prize for producing part of an antihydrogen atom, antiprotons.Antimatter was first postulated by the British physicist Paul Dirac in 1930, when he was working on a way to reconcile the ideas of quantum mechanics with Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity. His equations showed that the electron should have a partner particle that was exactly the same mass but which had the opposite charge and magnetic moment.
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