{"id":84600,"date":"2018-11-08T22:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T06:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/earth-is-getting-hit-by-too-much-antimatter-and-nobody-knows-why"},"modified":"2018-11-08T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T06:22:23","slug":"earth-is-getting-hit-by-too-much-antimatter-and-nobody-knows-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/earth-is-getting-hit-by-too-much-antimatter-and-nobody-knows-why","title":{"rendered":"Earth Is Getting Hit by Too Much Antimatter, and Nobody Knows Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earth-is-getting-hit-by-too-much-antimatter-and-nobody-knows-why.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amid the high speed cosmic rays raining down on us from the depths of space are a handful of antimatter particles called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Positron\">positrons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers think that Earth is showered by these \u2018anti-electrons\u2019 because of pulsars, but there\u2019s a weird catch \u2013 there are more of these particles coming at us than there should be. And now, thanks to a new study, we might finally get some answers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/cosmos\/C\/Cosmic+Rays\">Cosmic rays<\/a> are incredibly fast particles, since they\u2019re being shot down from space at high energies. Positrons make up a small percent of these super speedy particles, but nobody is entirely sure where or how they\u2019re made.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/earth-hit-antimatter-nobody-knows\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/earth-hit-antimatter-nobody-knows\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the high speed cosmic rays raining down on us from the depths of space are a handful of antimatter particles called positrons. Astronomers think that Earth is showered by these \u2018anti-electrons\u2019 because of pulsars, but there\u2019s a weird catch \u2013 there are more of these particles coming at us than there should be. And [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84600","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\/84600","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}