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Originally Posted by Dark Mind
I have a "quick question" (<-- ask Tormod about those  ), can you see anti-matter? |
If you mean with the naked eye, under non-controlled conditions, I doubt it. You can't see something unless it is non-microscopic. And to get something even as small as the smallest visible molecule would require having trillions (or whatever) anti-matter atoms bonded together. Before that much anti-matter could aggregate it would encounter normal matter and undergo mutual annihilation.
Scientists have made an anti-atom, using an anti-proton as the nucleus and a positron as the "orbiting" particle. It didn't last long because they couldn't prevent it from encountering normal matter. I'm not sure, but I think that scientists may have since then created something larger than anti-hydrogen.
