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"Antimatter could be viewed as ordinary matter traveling backwards in time."
"For every one billion anti-particles, there must have been a billion and one particles...when they annihilated, the annihilation wasn't complete."
"The discovery of the positron was the discovery of antimatter."
"A gram of antimatter coming into contact with a gram of matter would destroy both."
"Understanding the asymmetry between matter and antimatter is one of the most important quests in modern cosmology."
"The craziest part is that the antimatter and matter mystery is nowhere close to being solved."
"Dirac's incredible insight in combining quantum mechanics and relativity reveal an entire flip side of our universe, with its prediction of anti-matter."
"You can't create antimatter without creating alongside an equal amount of matter, and you can't destroy antimatter without destroying an equal amount of matter."
"Antimatter is real and the notion that you could use it for space propulsion is a real idea."
"For every particle of matter, there exists an antimatter analogue."
"The destructive capacity of antimatter, were it to be harnessed, is beyond anything currently available to humankind."
"Antimatter, the mirror image of the matter that constitutes the observable universe, possesses properties diametrically opposed to that of regular matter."
"The discourse on antimatter and black holes highlights the intricate and bewildering complexities of our universe."
"Antimatter is the only way to go if you want to carry humans to other star systems."
"There is this very fundamental view of antimatter as just being matter that's struggling backwards in time."
"The conversion of antimatter and matter to energy is 100% efficient it is the ultimate engine."
"How can antimatter exist in our universe without a magnetic field?"
"The first generation of antimatter-powered spacecraft emerging."
"Antimatter is not just a theoretical curiosity; it has practical applications and implications."
"It predicted the existence of antimatter... one in electron meets a positron they annihilate into pure radiation into electromagnetic waves."
"The anti-matter idea just has a certain beauty to it. It's just the sheer, terrible beauty of a really dramatic explosion from the inside."
"Particles must have what are now called antiparticles, partners with equal mass and opposite charge"
"In theory we need a new type of matter that we don't know exists yet to have antimatter properties that allow it to prop open a wormhole a wormhole the size of the Earth."
"It would take billions and billions of years for us humans to make enough antimatter fuel to get to Alpha Centauri, unless we learn how to make it faster."
"Antimatter can pop into existence out of thin air if gamma ray photons have sufficiently high energy."
"This year, a team at CERN finally managed to trap 100 atoms of antimatter in a magnetic field and drop them."
"The motion of antimatter in the gravitational field of the earth finally has a sound and promising experimental foothold."
"Antimatter is valued at $62 trillion per gram."
"The universe looks like it's very, very grossly matter and not anti-matter."
"Next week we’ll dig into those, explain what it really is besides explosive, how we might manufacture and store it, and some of its other uses besides blowing stuff, in Antimatter Factories & Uses."
"If neutrinos behave differently from antineutrinos, the physics of the neutrinos might lead to an explanation of the preponderance of matter over antimatter."
"Dark matter and antimatter are still mysteries waiting to be unraveled."
"The whole combination is neither matter nor antimatter. It's some of each."
"Messages from the future: Antimatter is often considered an exotic material of science fiction, but antimatter was first discovered in 1932 by the physicist Carl David Anderson, earning him the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics."
"Positrons are antimatter, they're the opposite of electrons, they'll meet an electron and then they'll annihilate."
"There's a slight chance, very small chance, that what they discovered are possibly antimatter stars in the middle of our own galaxy."
"You can create anything you want as long as you create a kind of partner antimatter."
"It predicted the existence of anti-matter before there was any reason to imagine such a thing."
"Antimatter can be used to solve some of the biggest mysteries in science."
"The universe is almost entirely matter only, which is a good thing because when matter and antimatter touch, they destroy each other."
"The antimatter particles are created on Earth from ultra-high-speed collisions made at huge particle accelerators."
"Antimatter is no longer science fiction; it is real and is being made daily for scientific purposes."
"There is more matter than antimatter in our universe, and that is the reason our universe exists."
"Antimatter is stuff that's very closely related to normal matter... for every normal particle that we are used to having around us there is a theoretical anti-particle."
"For every particle, there is also an anti-particle."
"Antimatter does exist, and we actually even managed to make some."
"Antimatter is only 1% of the universe, less than 1% dark matter is more than half of the universe."
"Antimatter annihilates if it comes in contact with matter, so what container do you keep it in before use?"
"How close are we to building an antimatter propulsion system?"
"Dark matter and antimatter can actually annihilate with very global cross-sections."
"Antimatter cannot just continue to exist; it's in the presence of matter, so something happens, it annihilates."
"The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment... to explore how matter triumphed over antimatter."
"Antimatter is used routinely in medical diagnosis."
"Antimatter particles, with the opposite electrical charge of ordinary matter, remain exceptionally rare."