Interesting facts about Antimatter :
Antimatter is the most expensive substance on Earth having a price tag of sixty two point five trillion dollars per gram. That’s almost three times. The GDP of the United States of America. There are two reasons why this thing is so expensive. Firstly, it’s pretty challenging to produce. And secondly, it’s even harder to store. Just one gram of matter and antimatter Collision can create an explosion
In 2011 scientists created a record of holding antimatter for 15 long minutes. The total amount of antimatter artificially produced by humans is just 20, nanograms, but what is this, antimatter, how did we come to know about it? And most importantly, why are scientists so excited about the antimatter Stars? To understand the origin of antimatter, we need to go about a hundred years back in time the first 30 years of the 20th century were a golden era for physics. Three significant theories, took birth and Sarah. The first was the special theory of relativity that describes physics at high speeds close to that of Life. The second was, the general theory of relativity that describes gravity at a much better way that Newton’s Theory. Finally, the third was quantum mechanics.
It’s the motion of tiny particles that make up the universe soon. Scientists realize mechanics. To accurately, describe the behavior of small particles, they need to unify after years of work, physicist, came up with an equation that finally connects these two theories. This equation is known as the Dirac equation, but something did not seem right about it. This equation ends at the existence of exotic matter known as antimatter than his negative energy. How could something have negative energy? Physicist had no idea if such a thing could ever exist in the universe.
Just five years later, the discovery of antimatter was announced. It was a breakthrough in physics for almost every particle there exists. Its corresponding antiparticle with an opposite charge. So, if an electron is a particle with a negative charge, a positron is an antiparticle having the same mass but a positive charge renowned physicist. Richard Feynman said that antiparticles are just particles that are traveling back in time moments after the big bang matter and antimatter were created in equal quantities. But due to some unknown process matter, particles outnumbered antimatter In 2018 while searching for antimatter scientists reported something strange on the International Space Station.
Their detectors, recorded six particles of anti helium this substance produced at Labs on Earth and 2011. Back then scientists said that if they ever detect anti helium and space, it must be coming from the nuclear fusion inside a star made up of antimatter. The theories. Also hinted a cosmic rays behind the detection of anti helium casting doubt on the existence of anti stars. Now researchers have examined 10 years of observations from the Fermi gamma-ray.
Space Telescope, the catalog contained nearly 5800 gamma. Ray Source, has normally pulsars and black holes amongst these, there are 14 unique sources that possess energies that are generally an outcome of matter-antimatter annihilation. And if these observations are Confirmed, there’s a great possibility that the string antimatter detected. In 2018 could have been shed by anti Stars Statistics say that the Milky Way should have one antimatter star to 300,000 normal Stars.
If they exist anti Stars, would fuse, antihydrogen into anti helium to produce life and thus would look reasonably ordinary. This makes their detection, very difficult, if anti stars are proven to exist, they will alter our view of cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics.