{"id":245771,"date":"2026-10-21T21:24:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/physicists-trapped-a-particle-of-antimatter-and-kept-it-caged-for-months"},"modified":"2026-10-21T21:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:24:35","slug":"physicists-trapped-a-particle-of-antimatter-and-kept-it-caged-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/physicists-trapped-a-particle-of-antimatter-and-kept-it-caged-for-months","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Trapped a Particle of Antimatter And Kept It Caged For Months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Universe, according to theory at least, should not exist.<\/p>\n<p>Every particle in the Universe has a corresponding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/antimatter\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">antimatter<\/a> counterpart. Should ever a pair of such particles meet, they would immediately cancel each other out \u2013 annihilated in a tiny puff of energy.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretically, the birth of the Universe should have produced equal quantities of particles and antiparticles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Universe, according to theory at least, should not exist. Every particle in the Universe has a corresponding antimatter counterpart. Should ever a pair of such particles meet, they would immediately cancel each other out \u2013 annihilated in a tiny puff of energy. Theoretically, the birth of the Universe should have produced equal quantities of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245771","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\/245771","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}