• Question: What do you think about anti matter? Do you wish you could hold it? Do you wish you could find it?

    Asked by anon-188256 to Warren, Shanti, Pizza Ka Yee, Paul, Nadine, Alex on 5 Nov 2018.
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      Alex Reid answered on 5 Nov 2018: last edited 5 Nov 2018 9:49 pm

      This is a cool question but as I am not a physicist I don’t really know much at all about dark matter (I think that is what you are actually asking about as physicists have already found and studied anti-matter!). I can’t speak for the others here but the only dark matter I am generally preoccupied with is the residue buildup at the bottom of my favourite coffee cup. That said I do indeed hope my physicist colleagues locate some if it makes them happy and lets us discover more about the universe (in fact a quick google search indicates they have made real progress!).

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      Nadine Mirza answered on 5 Nov 2018:

      I know so little about this! What I do know is that apparently if matter and anti-matter collide they will destroy each other? So if I tried to hold it we’d both end up annihilating each other? Very good versus evil Jedi versus Sith vibe. I’m not sure though!!!!

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      Paul Matusz answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      Mmmm i think it’s a question more for physicists 😉 I think if I touched antimatter it’d disintegrate me and my hand..? Or suck me in whole and spit out in a universe composed just of triangles??
      Prefer that antimatter at the bottom of my coffee mug, yuuuuup 😉

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