ANTIMATTER (AND YOU THOUGHT DARK MATTER WAS SCARY)
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In physics (specifically particle physics), antimatter is something consisting of antiparticles. Antiparticles have the same mass as the particles that we so comfortably live with, but they have opposite charge along with quantum spin. When a antimatter particle and a regular particle hit each other, they emit high-energy photons "gamma-ray". They can also release particle antiparticle pairs. In nature, all particles (or antiparticles) have an opposite pair. So for every particle you see their is an antiparticle that it could explode with. Antiparticles bind the same way that regular particles do. They can make atoms and other super terrifying stuff that scares me. For example, you can take a positron (the antimatter equivalent to an electron) and mold it with an antiproton to create a (gulp) antihydrogen. Fortunately other types of atoms have only been created in labs. -- The Brain
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