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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The naming is not great here. Antimatter is still “matter”. It have mass, energy, volume, electric charge, etc. All of what you expect from matter. So it does fall under the definition of matter. Sadly the meaning of “matter” usually depend on context but I have heard people call it “ordinary” matter and antimatter as the two types of matter.

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