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Antimatter and annihilation
The researchers are found antimatter in protons. That thing makes the question, how this is possible? The antimatter is an incredible thing, and there is only one use in that material, and the thing is an energy source. The antimatter reacts with its mirror particle causing the thing called "annihilation", where both particles are turning to energy. The antimatter doesn't only contain antiprotons, antineutrons, and antielectrons (positrons), which have positive polarity.
By connecting the electrons with positrons by putting those particles in the rotation is possible to make positronium. In positronium, the rotation movement keeps those particles away from each other. It is researched the possibility to make "stable positronium" by anchoring the electron and positron in a certain position is possible to store antiprotons in the bottle without outcoming electricity.
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(Image II) "An electron and positron orbiting around their common center of mass. (An s state has zero angular momentum; so orbiting around each other would mean going straight at each other until scattered or until annihilation, whichever comes first). This is a bound quantum state known as positronium "(Wikipedia, positronium)
In normal scenarios, the antimatter or anti-ions are stored in a magnetic bottle where the magnetic field keeps the particles hovering without touching the wall. But positrons can be stored between two layers where the protons are positioned in the middle of the structure. That thing can use in antimatter batteries. The idea is that way the antimatter can store without magnetic bottles. But that thing seems very unstable.
Most of all other particles have anti-particle pairs. The quarks have also anti-quark pairs, and possibly even the Higgs boson has the pair called "anti-Higgs boson". The photon has not observed the "anti-photon" pair. But maybe that thing exists. The antiparticles have the opposite polarity with normal particles and that thing causes those particles will pull each other together, and if the particles are impacting, that causes an explosion.
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The reason why antimatter in protons doesn't seem to react is that antimatter is hovering in some kind of electric- or quantum field, and that thing keeps the antimatter away from its mirror particles. The proton is the network of the quark-antiquark pairs, which are making complicated structures, as you see in image III (Image III).
So that complicated structure and interactions between particle-antiparticle pairs inside proton cause question: are it possible that there could happen internal and spontaneous annihilation between those particles inside a proton?
Neutrino is an interesting version of antimatter because it interacts only with the antineutrino. And that could theoretically offer the possibility to make a safe antimatter fuel or antimatter storage.
When we are observing one of the most interesting pairs of material and antimatter particles neutrino and antineutrino, there is a small difference between those masses. If the mass of antineutrino is smaller than neutrino, that means it loses it somewhere. And if the mass of antineutrino is bigger, that means it would get energy from somewhere. The fact is that there "seems" to be a difference in the masses between neutrino and antineutrino. And measuring that mass is an extremely tricky thing.
A neutrino can travel through the planet without any kind of interaction. It seems not to participate in the strong interaction, so that means that theoretically, the antimatter can store in the neutrino bottle without the need to afraid the annihilation. But we ever can get enough neutrinos, that the bottle is possible to make, but that hypothesis is nice to think.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00430-3
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110825172501.htm
https://www.techexplorist.com/proton-complicated-expected-think-scientists/38011/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiparticle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positronium
Image I: https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2012/01/collisions-happen
Image II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positronium
Image III: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00430-3
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