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Matter-Antimatter and its Potential Applications

Abstract

Quantum physics is a science of prediction for the future. Antimatter has been an element of quantum physics; antimatter exists, and can be made at very small quantities. The nature of antimatter is examined in the context that the notion of antimatter is more general than that of antiparticles. Properly stated, then, antimatter is not matter made up of antiparticles, rather, antiparticles are particles made up of antimatter. In this paper the concept of matter and antimatter is presented. Production and storing of antimatter are outlined. Annihilation of particle and its antiparticle is described and some applications are reviewed.