eli5 What is antimatter?

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I’ve tried reading up on it but my brain can’t comprehend the concept of matter having an opposite. Like… if it’s the opposite of matter then it just wouldn’t exist?

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It’s not really the “opposite” of matter.

It’s still…matter. It’s just that *one* of the properties of that matter is different than what you get from regular matter. That specific property *is* the “opposite”. That specific property is the *charge* I can go more in-depth and explain what charge is but just know that antimatter having an “opposite charge” is about as mind-bending and profound as the idea of calling a car where the driver sits in the back and on the left but everything else is identical an “anti-car.”

And something tells me you aren’t all that confused by the idea of an anticar where the driver sits in the back and on the left.

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