Antimatter

deep in the heart of the universe there's a mysterious and powerful force

hidden waiting to be unlocked it's a force that could change the world as we

know it and it's called anti-matter let's discover what this thing is and

how we could use it to turn our lives upside down

antimatter is the science fiction fantasy come to life you may have heard

about it in Star Trek and Star Wars but it's actually a real thing that

scientists have been studying for over a century

but what is it exactly and how is it different from regular matter

well let's start with the basics you probably know that atoms are made up

of tiny particles called protons,neutrons and electrons

these particles are all made of matter which is what we're all made of and what makes up everything around us and antimatter is just like that but

with a Twist instead of protons,anti-matter atoms have something called

antiprotons and instead of neutrons they have anti-neutrons and instead of electrons they have positrons almost got you there basically antimatter is made up of particles with opposite charge Spin and other properties of regular matter while a proton has a positive charge andan antiproton has a negative charge and while an electron has a negative charge an anti-electron also known as a positron has a positive chargeget it antimatter is kind of like an evil twin of regular matter it's the mirror image of everything that we're all familiar with just like how Batman has the Joker matter has antimatter so if you ever wanted to know what it's like to be in a world where everything is made of the opposite this would be your answerand here's the best part when the antimatter and matter particles meet they literally annihilate each other releasing a tremendous amount of energy at the same time this is why scientists believe that it could provide an almost a limitless source of power you might be wondering where is all this antimatter why don't we have these anti-particles flying around and throwing crazy fireworks after every touch with regular particles.particlesactually scientists believe that during the Big Bang matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts but for some reason matter came to dominate so when they started destroying each other in the end ordinary matter won by a hair why did it happen we still have no idea this is one of the biggest mysteries in physics all we know is that in the end that's how we got the universe we know today makes you wonder what our universe would look like if regular matter lost but that's a topic for another day.antimatter is considered to be one of the most fascinating things in science, it has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the universe and of course maybe a new source of energy imagine a fuel that could power a spaceship to the far reaches of the Galaxy or a power plant that could provide for an entire city, this is what we can get if we solve this puzzle but how was antimatter even discovered especially considering that there was nothing left of it at the beginning of the universe.well scientists were able to discover it in a very clever way first of all we have to go back in time first of all we have to go back in time to the early 20th century that's when a physicist named Paul Dirac predicted the existence of antimatter he had a theory that for every particle of matter in the universe there must be corresponding.