What does antimatter look like?

Answer 1

Antimatter probably looks almost exactly like its normal matter counterpart. The reason is that the laws of electromagnetism are symmetric with respect to sign, and so the interactions of antiparticles with photons will be exactly the same as those of their corresponding particles. Indeed, in all interactions between antiparticles, antimatter behaves very similarly to the corresponding particles of matter (I say similar, not identical, because the weak nuclear force is NOT symmetric, and antiparticles also have opposite spin from their corresponding particles. However, the effect of this on the macroscopic appearance of antimatter is likely to be very small).

Note that I say probably, because nobody has ever produced a large enough quantity of antimatter for us to look at directly. This is probably a good thing -- if a storage device containing a macroscopic quantity of antimatter (say, one gram) were to malfunction, the resulting interaction of antimatter with the surrounding matter would release an amount of energy equivalent to the detonation of 43 thousand tons of trinitrotoluene. If that ever happens, it would probably be a good idea not to be in the same city as the antimatter.

Answer 2

our eyes are designed to detect light, so unless antimatter also emitted photons, or there is some unknown parts of your eye that react to antimatter, we would not "see" it at all. It's existence is deduced from experimental data, it's not created in pieces that you can physically see. Perhaps if there was antimatter reacting with matter to produce energy and light, you would be able to see some colored light coming from nowhere.

Answer 3

I don't think anyone has ever "seen" antimatter. Scientists can create molecules of hydrogen (anti-matter) here on earth, but it instantaneouly reacts with the matter around it, making it is very hard to contain. Can you really see a molecule of hydrogen?

It used to co-exist in space with matter, but was depleted at about the same time as the Big Bang. So, no one has really seen anti-mater.

Answer 4

some people think it would just look black.. some people think it would be invisible.. nobody knows for sure because they haven't been able to produce more than a microscopic spec of antimatter for more than a billionth of a second..

Answer 5

antimatter looks precisely like commonplace rely, a minimum of on a macroscopic scale. the only distinction is that anti rely rely is made out of anti debris, or debris with the different can charge so an anti electron has a constructive can charge, so its named the positron, and an anti proton has a unfavorable can charge. so anti water could look like commonplace water, and anti oxygen could llok like commonplace oxygen. although, presently, even although we've "created" anti rely in particle accelerators, it somewhat is in such small parts that we can not desire to work out it with our eyes or the different piece of technologies.

Answer 6

The opposite of what it would look like as matter.

Dan Brown, author of "Angels and Demons" describes it's appearance as a fluid metallic look. If you're old enough to remember what mercury (the element, not the planet, lol) looks like, that's the image I get when I think about it.

Answer 7

i think that it is invisible; because it will interact with photons differently to known matter our eyes are not developed to detect this kind of light so therefore should be invisible

Answer 8

the opposite of what matter looks like.

Answer 9

I don't know, but what can I take for anti-gas.