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minus-squarerockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·9 days agoThe reason why it’s called antimatter is because the polarity of the nucleus and electrons are reversed. There are also antineutrons that have a neutral charge. It all still has mass, but will obliterate upon contact with regular matter
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 days agoyes, its the same as normal, its just the “Spin of the particles that are opposite”, if you get down deeper, the quarks are opposite.
minus-squareQuilotoa@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down4·9 days agoThat’s a good question. Maybe it has antimass?
minus-squareLastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·9 days agoThat was a hypothesis until just recently, where they measured it and found that it has regular mass. https://home.cern/science/experiments/gbar
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·9 days agoUnfortunately not. Antimatter isn’t anti gravity.
minus-squaregedhrel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoIt doesn’t, but if it did that’d explain why there isn’t much of it around.
Does antimatter have mass?
The reason why it’s called antimatter is because the polarity of the nucleus and electrons are reversed. There are also antineutrons that have a neutral charge. It all still has mass, but will obliterate upon contact with regular matter
Yes
yes, its the same as normal, its just the “Spin of the particles that are opposite”, if you get down deeper, the quarks are opposite.
That’s a good question. Maybe it has antimass?
That was a hypothesis until just recently, where they measured it and found that it has regular mass.
https://home.cern/science/experiments/gbar
Unfortunately not. Antimatter isn’t anti gravity.
It doesn’t, but if it did that’d explain why there isn’t much of it around.