Eli5 what is anti matter?
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Anti Matter is basically the mirror equivalent to normal matter. Matter (everything from air molecules, steel, your skin, water, farts) consists out of atoms. Atoms (as a very easy simplification) consists out of protons (positive charge), often neutrons (no charge) and electrons (negative charge) … with antiprotons having a negative charge and antielectrons (called positrons) having a positive charge.
Antimatter is at least right now incredibly difficult and expensive to create, the theoretical value of one gram of Antimatter is somewhere in the 50 trillion USD range. So any kind of mass production is out of the question, and this is perhaps for the better, because antimatter, aside from its very interesting physical properties, known for causing one of the most violent reactions known to humanity: the matter / antimatter annihilation. Would such an annihilation of equal mass of matter / antimatter happen the result would be on par or easily surpass the biggest nuclear weapons ever created.
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