Restricting antimatter - practical rather than legal measures

Antimatter is relatively easy, but heinously expensive, to make using modern technology. I have two universes with the same problem; energy is free and for all practical purposes infinite, this should make antimatter dead cheap. I want to keep antimatter weapons out of my settings despite this situation because I want to keep the mechanisms of mass destruction to a bare minimum, but how can I restrict its production technologically rather than legally?

The settings are going to be surprisingly technologically stagnant, so not having advances within particular key fields is practical. I suppose what I'm asking is: what field or fields of science need to be held back, or even regressed from where we are now, to prevent easy access to and/or weaponization of antimatter?

To be very clear I want to restrict antimatter at source because of technological considerations because legal measures can be subverted but if the technological base isn't there to do the manufacturing then wanting, and being willing, to circumvent the law does you no good you still can't have what you shouldn't. I understand that I'm talking about a very artificial measure, I want to know where to put the pressure to keep the measures as subtle as possible.

Let me be clear this question is not about what else you could do with unlimited power or the nature or applications of antimatter it is about the technologies that are used to generate, store, and transport antimatter as we know it. Answers should focus on which of these technologies can be restricted with least effort to keep antimatter expensive and dangerous.

posted over 6 years ago

Ash‭

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