{"id":19139,"date":"2015-11-06T20:48:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T04:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/scientists-have-finally-measured-the-force-that-holds-antimatter-together"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:48:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:48:57","slug":"scientists-have-finally-measured-the-force-that-holds-antimatter-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/scientists-have-finally-measured-the-force-that-holds-antimatter-together","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have finally measured the force that holds antimatter together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-finally-measured-the-force-that-holds-antimatter-together.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, physicists in the US have managed to measure the force that attracts antimatter particles to each other. And, surprisingly, it\u2019s not that different to the attractive force that holds regular matter together.<\/p>\n<p>The results take us one step closer to understanding one of the biggest mysteries of our Universe: why there\u2019s so much more matter than antimatter, and suggest that the imbalance isn\u2019t a result of antiparticles not being able to \u2018stick\u2019 together.<\/p>\n<p>For every particle that exists \u2013 electrons, protons, quarks \u2013 there\u2019s an equal and opposite antiparticle, which has the opposite electrical charge and spin, and these antiparticles make up what\u2019s known as antimatter. When the Universe was formed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/how-we-recreated-the-early-universe-in-the-laboratory\">physicists believe that equal amounts of antimatter and matter<\/a> were produced, but today it\u2019s very hard to find any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/strange-antimatter-found-in-thunderclouds-and-the-laws-physics-can-t-explain-it\">naturally occurring antimatter<\/a> left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-measured-the-force-that-makes-holds-antimatter-together-for-the-first-time\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, physicists in the US have managed to measure the force that attracts antimatter particles to each other. And, surprisingly, it\u2019s not that different to the attractive force that holds regular matter together. The results take us one step closer to understanding one of the biggest mysteries of our Universe: why there\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51337,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19139\/revisions\/51337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}