Antimatter Explained
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Pretty much everything in the universe is made out of matter - the earth, air, you andme, stars, interstellar dust - all matter. By which we mean that these things are madeout of electrons and quarks - and very occasionally other rarer matter particles like muons, tauons,and neutrinos.All of these particles are, at their fundamental level, excitations in everywhere-permeatingquantum fields. But, as the famous quote goes, “for every particle, there is an equal andopposite antiparticle - an opposite excitation in the everywhere permeating quantum fieldthat has all of the exact same properties as that particle - except opposite charge.”And since these antiparticles are opposite excitations of the quantum field, when a particleand antiparticle meet, they annihilate and ...
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Pretty much everything in the universe is made out of matter - the earth, air, you andme, stars, interstellar dust - all matter. By which we mean that these things are madeout of electrons and quarks - and very occasionally other rarer matter particles like muons, tauons,and neutrinos.All of these particles are, at their fundamental level, excitations in everywhere-permeatingquantum fields. But, as the famous quote goes, “for every particle, there is an equal andopposite antiparticle - an opposite excitation in the everywhere permeating quantum fieldthat has all of the exact same properties as that particle - except opposite charge.”And since these antiparticles are opposite excitations of the quantum field, when a particleand antiparticle meet, they annihilate and ...
