{"id":15317,"date":"2025-07-17T11:39:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15317"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:19:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:49:46","slug":"antimatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/antimatter\/","title":{"rendered":"Antimatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Antimatter Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, an international collaboration of scientists based in Europe reported that they had, for the first time, observed that the matter and antimatter versions of a type of subatomic particle called a baryon decay at different rates.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Antimatter<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antimatter is the<\/span><b> same as ordinary matter except<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that it has the <\/span><b>opposite electric charge.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>antimatter particles corresponding to electrons, protons, and neutrons<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are called <\/span><b>positrons (e<\/b><b>+<\/b><b>), antiprotons (p), and antineutrons (n);<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> collectively they are referred to as <\/span><b>antiparticles<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The electrical properties of antimatter being opposite to those of ordinary matter, the <\/span><b>positron has a positive charg<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e and the <\/span><b>antiproton a negative charge;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>antineutron, though electrically neutral, has a magnetic moment opposite in sign<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to that of the neutron.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Matter and antimatter cannot coexist at close range<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for more than a small fraction of a second because they <\/span><b>collide with and annihilate each other,<\/b> <b>releasing large quantities of energy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the form of<\/span><b> gamma rays or elementary particles.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antimatter was <\/span><b>created along with matter after the Big Bang<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But <\/span><b>antimatter is rare in today&#8217;s universe.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">Humans have <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">created antimatter particles using ultra-high-speed collisions at huge particle accelerators<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such as the <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Large Hadron Collider,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is located outside <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Geneva and operated by CERN <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(the European Organization for Nuclear Research).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/what-is-the-universes-antimatter-mystery-explained\/article69821977.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antimatter is like ordinary matter but with opposite electric charge, often called &#8220;mirror matter,&#8221; and is studied for its role in physics and the universe.&#8221; Read more about Antimatter, Meaning, Creation, Properties, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":55430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1614,1609],"class_list":{"0":"post-15317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-antimatter","9":"tag-tadoba-andhari-tiger-reserve","10":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}