If you can t measure it, you can t research it
Lindsay Clark Tue 6 Apr 2021 // 09:45 UTC Share
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A team of European researchers have succeeded in slowing down antimatter in a study that could lead to more accurate measures of this strangely elusive substance and help confirm the fundamental symmetry of nature.
Antimatter has certain properties – such as electric charge – which are inverted from those of normal matter. In this anti-universe, the anti-electron (aka positron) has a +1 electrical charge, and the antiproton has an −1 electric charge. However, anti-particles do have the same mass as their matter counterparts.
Antimatter is also tricky to work with. If an anti-particle comes into contact with its counterpart, they annihilate one another, leaving behind pure energy.