14 DAY TRIAL // If you've been paying attention to what your science teacher was talking about in school, you probably know that everything in the world around us is made out of matter. That's right, I'm talking books, DVDs, even your pet dog or pet hamster.
Something tells me you've also heard about antimatter, which is kind of like a mysterious force that can help us better understand how the universe formed and also destroy us in the blink of an eye were it to throw a fit.
If you're looking to learn more about what antimatter is, where it comes from and how it works, then you definitely want to watch the MinutePhysics video below. More so if you happen to be a big fan of animations.
As explained in this video, which I myself find positively brilliant, there's an antiparticle for each and every type of particle in the world. Whenever they meet, antiparticles and particles suddenly realize how much they loathe each other, and mutual annihilation follows.
In theory, it might be possible to get antiparticles to come together and form antiobjects. The thing is that, until now, scientists have only managed to put about a hundred anti-hydrogen-atoms together at the same time. This is because there is a whole lot of matter around, just waiting to destroy antimatter.
Physicists have been studying antimatter for quite a while now. However, they still haven't figured out why the Big Bang ended up producing way more matter than antimatter. They hope that, with the help of particle smashers like the Large Hadron Collider, they will soon solve this mystery.
