The reason why it’s called antimatter is because the polarity of the nucleus and electrons are reversed. There are also antineutrons that have a neutral charge. It all still has mass, but will obliterate upon contact with regular matter
There are also anti neutrons that have a neutral charge
Expanding onto this, it raises the question: how is a neutron different to an anti-neutron?
A neutron can be though of a particle composed of 2 down and 1 up quarks and lot of gluon’s that keep everything together. The gluon is its own antiparticle, so the antineutron has 2 anti-down quarks, 1 anti-up quarks and gluons. This way it becomes a different particle despite also being of neutral charge.
Does antimatter have mass?
The reason why it’s called antimatter is because the polarity of the nucleus and electrons are reversed. There are also antineutrons that have a neutral charge. It all still has mass, but will obliterate upon contact with regular matter
Expanding onto this, it raises the question: how is a neutron different to an anti-neutron?
A neutron can be though of a particle composed of 2 down and 1 up quarks and lot of gluon’s that keep everything together. The gluon is its own antiparticle, so the antineutron has 2 anti-down quarks, 1 anti-up quarks and gluons. This way it becomes a different particle despite also being of neutral charge.
Yes
yes, its the same as normal, its just the “Spin of the particles that are opposite”, if you get down deeper, the quarks are opposite.
That’s a good question. Maybe it has antimass?
That was a hypothesis until just recently, where they measured it and found that it has regular mass.
https://home.cern/science/experiments/gbar
Unfortunately not. Antimatter isn’t anti gravity.
It doesn’t, but if it did that’d explain why there isn’t much of it around.