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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
You would need a much more powerful magnet than 10 Teslas to even trap a gram of antimatter. Just using a back of the envelope calculation, you would need a 1 million Telsa magnetic field to contain a gram of antimatter for a prolonged period of time (the attraction between antimatter and matter is probably one of the most powerful forces in the Universe).
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Antiprotons are attracted to protons, positrons are attacked to electrons, but neutral antimatter is not significantly attracted to neutral matter.
Any significant amount of pure charged particles requires ridiculous energy to hold together; if you could hold a gram of antiprotons in one place there'd be no point because you could just hold a gram of protons and get about the same energy storage (1g of protons is about 96,000 Coulombs).