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Physicists Trapped a Particle of Antimatter And Kept It Caged For Months
Every particle in the Universe has a corresponding antimatter counterpart. Should ever a pair of such particles meet, they would immediately cancel each other out – annihilated in a tiny puff of energy.
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Every particle in the Universe has a corresponding antimatter counterpart. Should ever a pair of such particles meet, they would immediately cancel each other out – annihilated in a tiny puff of energy. Theoretically, the birth of the Universe should have produced equal quantities of particles and antiparticles.
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