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Article: PHYSICISTS CREATE FIRST ANTIMATTER ATOMS\DISCOVERY AT SWISS LAB OPENS DOOR TO BRAVE NEW ANTI-WORLD, SCIENTISTS SAY.(NEWS/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- January 5, 1996
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Byline: CAROLYN HENSON ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA -- Physicists have created the first atoms of antimatter, giving scientists a glimpse of what they say could be a "completely new anti-world."
The breakthrough was announced Thursday after months of careful checking of data. Physicists say it is possible that the universe could contain stars and planets made entirely of antimatter - objects that up to now scientists could only imagine.
The antimatter atoms were produced last September at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics - CERN - in Switzerland by Professor Walter Oelert and his team from Erlangen-Nuremberg University in Germany.