Fortunately, however, the BBC is reporting that "di-positronium, as the new molecule is known, was predicted to exist in 1946 but has remained elusive to science. Now, a US team has created thousands of the molecules by merging electrons with their antimatter equivalent: positrons.

"The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, is a key step in the creation of ultrapowerful lasers known as gamma-ray annihilation lasers."

According to Dr. Moff Tarkin David Cassidy, a large quantity of concentrated positronium could act as a sort of super-atom, and could be used to trap light.

That, combined with Russia's test of a ultrapowerful vacuum bomb leads us to hope that ultrapowerful superweapons capable of destroying a planet will be within our budgets soon. And lightsabers.

(Those of you who actually have degrees in this stuff might point out that it is the annihilation of the material which actually provides the energy. According to an earlier paper co-authored by Dr. Cassidy, stimulated annihilation is the precursor to laser emission. Sort of the "'i' before 'e'" rule of particle physics, really.)