Antimatter

Categories: Science | Technology | Physics
    • 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
  • Antimatter is a kind of matter composed of subatomic antiparticles like antiprotons, antineutrons and positrons, which carry a reversed electric charge and are the opposite of normal particles like protons, neutrons and electrons.
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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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