"KittyKat" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:3FE4E587.8020808@nospam.com...

Scientists have been working on creating antimatter in a controlled
environment. Their problem is that it takes a lot of energy to produce
even a small amount and a great deal of time. The amount to fuel a
rocket given with the present technology would take hundreds if not
thousands of years.

It would take a while, but the real problem is not creating it:

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=amehm8%24qam%241@sunnews.cern.ch

The poster is a member of a team that has been producing anti-hydrogen.

George