Antimatter - The Long Lost Cousin of Matter

A beautiful quote by Paul Dirac

Many of you physics lovers would have figured out what I am gonna talk about

Yes,
The contrary to matter - Antimattter

So now let's have a brief insight about it

Antimatter:

Classical physics only allowed systems to have positive energy. But Dirac’s new theory of relativistic quantum mechanics allowed for a particle with negative energy solution, as a counterpart to the familiar positive-energy electron.

After ruling out the possibility that this particle was simply the proton – which has a hugely greater mass – Dirac predicted the existence of a new particle with the same mass of the electron but with a charge that was positive rather than negative.

It’s now understood that all particles have an equivalent antimatter particle with opposite charge and quantum spin – although some are their own antiparticle. However hardly any antimatter is seen in the observable universe, and why there should be vastly much more normal matter is one of the great unsolved problems in physics.

It was once thought that matter could neither be created nor destroyed, but we now know that energy and mass are interchangeable. When a particle collides with its antiparticle the two annihilate each other, with their mass being entirely converted into energy.

Antimatter annihilations convert the entire mass of the particles involved into energy, following Albert Einstein’s famous equation E = MC (squared).

A great deal of energy can be produced from little mass – a kilogram of matter annihilating with the same amount of antimatter will release around as much as the Tsar Bomba, the largest thermonuclear bomb ever built.

Because of this, antimatter has been touted as a possible future weapon or source of fuel – antimatter-driven propulsion is a staple of science fiction.

However, antimatter currently takes far too long to produce, and at too high an energy cost, for either weapons or fuel to be practicable. CERN claims it has taken several hundred million pounds to produce just a billionth of a gram, and that to make a gram of antimatter would take about a 100 billion years.

So what happened to all the antimatter:

The Big Bang produced equal amount of matter and antimatter but today what we see is only Matter , Where did the antimatter go ?

When matter and antimatter combine thhey cease to exist and  form a photon

Then one should think why isn't the universe full of photon ?!

Well I can't answer it but the Large Hadron Collider may give us answers.

Some scientists have given an explanation on what happenned to the anti particles,which are as follows :

i. The early universe allowedd Conservation Law Violation                  (This makes me jealous of it)

ii. Anti particles decay faster than Normal particles

iii. They exist in equal amounts but superfast expansion of universe pulled them apart (My favorite) which means some galaxies out there could be Antimatter  Galaxies

So which one are you a fan of tell me in the comments And also mention whether you think Antimatter exists in large quantities

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