How can antimatter exist at all? What amount of math had to be done until someone realized they can create it?
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Anti-matter isn’t special in any way except that for some unknown reason the universe is made of what we call normal matter.
Why is it that protons have a positive charge and electrons negative? I don’t mean why do we call one positive and the other negative. Rather, there’s no reason at all that their charges can’t be swapped. That’s what antimatter is – matter with its charges swapped. Other than that, it seems to be identical to everyday matter in every other way. An antiproton has the same mass as a proton and does all the same things as a proton, it just has an opposite electric charge.
There’s no reason it *can’t* exist. And any process that creates matter from energy will create both a particle and its antiparticle.
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