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Antimatter is an extremely rare and expensive substance to produce. Estimates suggest it can cost billions of dollars per gram to produce antimatter. Its high cost is due to the complex processes required to create and store it.
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If anti matter exists where does it exists does it exists within matter only?
Antimatter exists in the universe and can be produced in high-energy environments, such as particle accelerators. It is the counterpart to ordinary matter, with opposite charge and other properties. Antimatter can interact with matter, leading to annihilation reactions where both particles are converted into energy.
What is the only concept in the universe that cannot be truly classified as a form of matter?
Anti- Matter
Why is there only matter not anti matter?
They are mirror images of the other: protons have a certain weight and are positively charged, anti-protons have the same weight but are negatively charged. Antimatter is just matter with an opposite charge.
How do physicists know the proportion of matter to anti matter in the universe?
We don't know the EXACT fraction of the observable Universe that is anti-matter, as opposed to the matter that constitutes our galaxy. We do know, however, that this fraction is quite small. If there WERE large sections of our Universe that consisted of anti-matter, the bounday layer between that section and the matter sections would have collisions between matter and anti-matter, and this would result in gamma rays coming from those collisions. Yes, it would be very few collisions and very rare gamma rays -- the density of inter-galactic space is a mere one atom per cubic meter-- but the gammas should be detectable. In thirty years of looking for them, we haven't found them. From this are pretty much forced to conclude that the entire observable Universe consists of the same matter stuff of our Local Cluster.
How much anti-matter in an anti-matter engine would it take to get to Alpha Centauri?
That depends on where you start and how much mass you want to take there. There are two many variables to make a guess. In general, because matter-antimatter conversion to energy results in a huge amount of energy (assuming that the antimatter is used in a matter-antimatter drive of some sort), it wouldn't take much.
How much would a fistful of antimatter weigh?
Probably the same as a fistful of normal matter. Note that just like normal matter comes in different varieties, so could antimatter, in principle - that is, you could have anti-hydrogen, anti-water, anti-lead, etc. So, I would expect a fistful of anti-lead to weigh as much as a fistful of normal lead, a fistful of anti-lithium to weigh as much as a fistful of normal lithium, etc.
Is it possible that the other 50 percent of missing antimatter comprises the matter inside the black holes at the center of a galaxy?
One of the unsolved questions about our Universe is why it is composed almost entirely of matter. In our understanding of our Universe, the ratio of matter to anti-matter should be about 50-50. Saying, "All the anti-matter went into the super-massive black holes (smbh) at the center of galaxies" doesn't solve very much. It just leads to the question, "Why did only anti-matter go into smbh, and not matter?" There is SOMETHING about our Universe that favors matter over anti-matter. We just don't yet know what that something is. Simply saying that it is something that makes anti-matter, but not matter, go into smbh doesn't really solve much.
What actually is present in vacuum?
A vacuum consist of anti-matter; the opposite of matter...matter is something and anti-matter is nothing. When something is added to the vacuum the anti-matter is displaced and only matter will now remains. If you were made out of anti-matter then your observable results would be the opposite. Matter and anti-matter cannot exist in the same space; only one of the two can exist in any place at any one time. When you remove matter from a space the only thing that can exisist in that space is anti-matter!
Why cant you store anti matter?
As soon as anti-matter comes in contact with matter, the two annihilate. As such, placing anti-matter into any container made of matter would result in both being annihilated. The only way to maintain anti-matter for any length of time is to keep it isolated from matter. Magnetic fields can do this for a short time, but invevitably the anti-matter and the matter meet each other.
What is an antonym for matter?
An antonym for matter is anti-matter.
Are elements matter?
Yes. not only elements all particle in the universe are matter. From Sambit Pal India. *********************** Anti particles are not matter they are anti-matter.
Does everything that you can see fit the definition for matter?
Matter is anything except anti-matter, and matter occupies all of everything everywhere. Basically, yes. Unless you see anti-matter, which is doubtful because the anti-matter would implode upon contact with matter, which includes air.
What is something that's not made of matter?
Anti-matter
Can you Buy Anti Matter?
No.
How did the big bang come into existence?
When Matter and anti-matter collided the Big Bang came into existence. But something still remains a mystery that how did the Matter and anti-matter come.
What differs between a regular proton and an anti matter proton?
An anti-matter proton (or simply an "anti-proton") differs in charge, and thus spin as well.
What existed before antimatter?
the question makes no sense, anti matter is produced when energy is converted into matter. no matter what, when energy converts into matter both matter and anti matter is created, and they can unite once more to be converted back into energy, basicly, ther is the same amount of anti matter particles as there are normal matter particles, but that's a diffrent story
