Antimatter is made of the same material that matter is. In an entirely antimatter environment, it functions no differently than ordinary matter. Indeed, there could be antimatter people living on an antimatter planet circling an antimatter star, and such a system would be fundamentally no different than our matter world. There is actually no objective basis for defining one type of matter as "normal" and the other "anti". It's viewed that way just because most of the massive particles in the universe are made of matter, with very little antimatter. If there were equal amounts, with antimatter civilizations existing out there, they could just as correctly say that they are normal matter, and that WE are antimatter.
The only real difference between matter and antimatter is that they have opposite electromagnetic charges and spins (angular momentum, or, simplistically put, the direction that a particle revolves on its axis). Although each is stable by itself, when matter and antimatter come into contact, they are both converted entirely into energy in the form of gamma rays, through a process known as annihilation. Although matter and energy are both forms of the same thing, and thus can never be created or destroyed (in the sense that they no longer exist), annihilation effectively destroys both particles.
2007-11-25 00:11:24
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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anti matter
they are particles opposite to the matter particles
I mean in matter protons have a positive charge
In anti matter protons have a negative charge
In matter electrons have negative charge
anti matter electrons have a positive charge
matter and anti mater can cancel out releasing tremendous amount of energy
They say 10 GRAMS !! of antimatter can fire up a rocket to the moon in 6 months .
antimatter are stored in containers seperated by magnetic field.
It takes 1 year to produce 1 picograms of antimatter
2007-11-25 00:10:19
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answer #3
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answered by Murtaza 6
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