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Sir Issac Newton had three laws of motion, which all concerned matter. The first was the law of inertia: an object is either still or moving at a constant speed, and will stay either moving or at the same speed unless acted on by an external force (such as friction - this is why you cannot slide forever on concrete). The second was the law of force: F=m*a (where F=force, M=mass, and a=acceleration). The third was the law of conservation of energy: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction (this is why, if you push off of the floor with your feet, you will go up - commonly known as jumping).

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anti-matter are particles found only in outter space. they are completely opposite to matter. we all know that an electron of an atom is negetively charged but in anti matter the electron is positively charged and the proton in a regular matter is positively charged but in anti matter it is negatively charged, which make it react with matter and giving out an enormous amount of energy.the reaction between matter and anti-matter leaves no remains .they completely dissosiate in each other.

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At any give point of time, you have equal and opposite amount of antimatter is present in the space as there is matter present in the space. So you get matter produced along with the antimatter in the space. So together it is a big (or small) zero. So from nothing, you get the matter and antimatter precipitated in the space. Probably there is equilibrium between nothing and matter / antimatter combination. You live in the area of the space where only matter exist. There may be universe / universes of anti matter in the space. You study the law of matter here and say that ' Matter can not be created nor destroyed'. If matter can not be created, then how in the first place it got created at some given point in the past ? This statement is self defeating and contradicts to itself. So you get the matter and antimatter produced and annihilated from nothing and the process continues. You are not expected to find the galaxy, cluster or super-cluster of antimatter in our universe. Between the matter you have force of gravitation acting on the same. In case of matter and antimatter you will have force of anti-gravity or force of repulsion. The force of repulsion between matter and antimatter will be directly proportional to the product of the masses of matter and antimatter and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. No comment on the number of universes can be made.

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Where to find antimatter?

Anywhere with elementary particles having the mass and electric charge of ordinary matter. Which basically all antimatter is.


What is the role of gravitational force between matter and antimatter?

Sir Issac Newton proposed theory of gravity. He formulated the relation between the force of gravity and the mass and the distance between the masses. This theory failed to explain as to why there is attraction between the masses and not repulsion. With every attraction you have to have corresponding repulsion. That problem is resolved with the discovery of antimatter. So like attracts like. So matter attracts matter and antimatter attracts antimatter. This fallows that matter repel antimatter. So force of gravity between the two masses of matter or two masses of antimatter is directly proportional to the product of masses or anti-masses (Antimatter). The force of repulsion will be directly proportional to the product of mass and anti-mass (Antimatter). It fallows that the force of repulsion is inversely proportional to square of distance between the two.


Is all life composed of matter?

Yes unless its antimatter.


What are the advantages of using antimatter?

Currently antimatter is only used for scientific research as it is very expensive to obtain. In the future antimatter could be used for anything that requires energy such as producing electricity.


Is anti-matter a state of matter?

Not as such, no. Antimatter is just matter that is charged backwards from what we think of as "normal" matter. it can be a solid, liquid, gas or plasma just like normal matter. the only difference is that antimatter uses positrons and anti-protons instead of electrons and protons to create an atom.

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How come the universe is made of matter and not antimatter?

That is not currently known. There is a slight assymetry between matter and antimatter, but so far, it seems that this assymetry is not enough to explain why there is only matter, and hardly any antimatter, in the Universe. Without such an assymetry, there wouldn't be either matter or antimatter in the Universe - just radiation. For more information about what is known, and what isn't, check the Wikipedia article on "Baryon asymmetry".


Why matter overcome antimatter?

That is one of the unsolved problems in cosmology. There seems to be a slight difference between matter and antimatter, that is, the symmetry between matter and antimatter is not perfect. But the details of baryogenesis are not known yet.


Anything that has volume or mass?

Matter, or antimatter.


Why the antimatter disappear in universe?

When antimatter comes into contact with matter, they annihilate each other.


If 1gram body of antimatter meets a 10gram body of matter which survives?

Initially the 9g of remaining matter would survive. Each particle of antimatter can only annihilate with one other particle of antimatter. At this point the 1g of antimatter would cause an explosion equivalent to that of 200000 pounds of TNT. Causing both groups of matter and antimatter to be obliterated.


Will antimatter start a black hole?

No, Antimatter while annihilate our matter, meaning that it will completely convert our matter to light and heat, however antimatter is highly theoretical, and the LHC probably will not create any.


What are two questions physicists have regarding antimatter?

1. Why is there more matter than antimatter in the Universe? Or: Why is there matter at all? (If there were the same amount of matter and antimatter, and it came into contact, it would quickly get destroyed. 2. If antimatter is so abundant, how come we've never come in contact with it or have been able to observe it?


What is the theory of creation of matter and antimatter from nothing?

You are giving the definition for the Big Bang Theory.


What is anything that is not matter?

A thing that not matter is antimatter. It has been created by man.


What is a thing that's not made up of matter?

antimatter and dark matter


Is it theoretically possible for there to be sentient beings composed of antimatter?

Absolutely not - Antimatter is a hypothetical form of matter that is as yet unsubstantiated. Answer It's possible but not probable. And antimatter is not hypothetical


What is the opposite to ordinary matter called?

PCH: Antimatter