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- Its existence was first proposed in 1928 by Paul Dirac
- One gram has enough potential energy to drive a car for 100,000 years without stopping
- Most expensive substance on Earth, produced at about $62.5 trillion per gram
- Less than 0.16 grams of antimatter are produced every year
- Unequal distribution of matter and antimatter in our known universe is one of the greatest unsolved problems in physics
- Practically applied to medical imaging in the positron emission tomography technique
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“On the big Bang theory: For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.” - Albert Einstein
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Antimatter Questions
Is antimatter real? Could it actually exist in our universe? 2 AnswersAnti-matter is perfectly real, and routinely used in experiments at places like CERN. http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/Spotlight/SpotlightAandD-en.html Anti-... read more
Who decides which questions get a Mahalo-funded tip and on what basis? (Im not seeing much consistency there!) 6 AnswersAs per Jason's thread http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo-answers-community/big-news-mahalo-answers-moves-to-m2-automatic-tip-trial-for-10-days --quote-- 1. W... read more -
Antimatter Books and Publications
- Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies: Physics Journal Publications on Antimatter
- Amazon.com: Mirror Matter: Pioneering Antimatter Physics by Robert L. Forward
- Amazon.com Book Search: Antimatter
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