ANTIMATTER

Hello internet. Today I will be talking about the rarest piece of the universe there is. ANTIMATTER.

An example of what antimatter is.

This item is the rarest piece of science there is to date. Here it is in a nutshell. So you know what matter is, right? It's the most basic unit of pretty much everything (with a few exceptions), and you can say that we know what they units are. Antimatter is like the evil twin of matter. It was formed after the big bang, as the big bang created both antimatter and matter. There were anti-electrons, anti-protons, anti-etc. The only difference is the anti- version of the regular matter version was that it had an opposite charge and an opposite spin, but all the other properties, such as mass and volume, were the same. And whenever matter and antimatter contacted, they would annihilate each other, creating pure energy.
If we were to control it, we would have to seal it in a vacuum so that the antimatter doesn't interact with air particles, and make it immobilized, so it wouldn't interact with the walls or basically anything that's regular matter. If you think that wasn't really nutshell, well, it's not. We more like just scratched the nutshell. If you were to have a full gallon of it, you would be extremely richer than the current richest person in the world by a long shot.

This picture depicts a positron.

However, if we actually did control it, our technology is about to jump ahead. The first thing I can think of that they would use it for is to probably make antimatter propeller systems to propel ships into space. This method is much more efficient than our current chemical systems. But that's just a theory.

 Remember when I said the big bang created both antimatter and matter? Well, for some reason, the big bang created more matter than antimatter which, by our current calculations, wasn't supposed to happen. We call this the "baryon asymmetry." We call it this because we, long ago, found that there were more baryonic particles than anti-baryonic particles. We have no explanation for this, and we may never have an explanation for this at all. The ration of the creation of antimatter to matter is approximately 1,000,000 to 1,000,001. The big bang should have (according to us) created equal amounts of antimatter and matter, and the result is total cancellation of everything, but, obviously, this is not the case. This suggests that there are different physical laws for antimatter and matter. "Why is there far more matter than antimatter baryonic particles in the observable universe?" This is one of the greatest unsolved problem in physics.

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