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Hubble's deep field image

Hubble's deep field image

Thursday, 8 March 2012

Anti-Matter

Continuing on the atoms topic, I will be talking about Anti-matter, the opposite of matter. To the untrained eye, anti -matter will look like normal matter, but there are slight differences such as the electric charges which are opposite. So, the proton is negative, the electron is positive (known as a positron) and the nucleus and the neutron have no charge. Anti-matter and matter will obliterate each other on collision.
In recent science, scientists have the ability to make anti- matter in huge machinery and in even more recent science, scientists have captured anti -matter for fifteen minutes, which allowed for deeper understanding of this mysterious type of particle.