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Antimatter History

In 1898, Arthur Schuster, British physicist, believed that there were entire stellar systems of antimatter that were indistinguishable from our solar system and introduced the names "antimatter" and "anti-atoms". He suggested that matter and antimatter would annihilate each other to produce an enormous quantity of energy along with anticipating the concepts of special relativity and quantum physics.

  • In 1905, Albert Einstein unveiled his special relativity theory explaining the relationship between space & time, and energy & mass in his famous equation, E=mc2.  Hermann Minkowski realized space and time were coupled together by a four-dimensional.  In 1919, Theodor Kaluza, unified Maxwell's Electromagnetism and Einstein's Theory of General Relativity and Gravity by adding the fifth dimension.  Max Planck proposed that light was composed of little packets called "quantum” to explain how light was not just a wave or just a particle, but a combination of both. In the 1920s, Erwin Schrödinger and Werner Heisenberg apply the concept to the atoms and invented quantum theory of physics for slow moving particles.

  • In 1928, Paul Dirac developed an equation for combining quantum theory and special relativity. The solution contained an electron with positive energy, and a positive electron (positron) with negative energy. In 1930, Carl Anderson was studying showers of cosmic particles and discovered the positron, which confirming Dirac’s Theory.  Dirac's equation won him a Nobel Prize in 1933. Paul Dirac theorized for every particle there exists a corresponding antiparticle, which exactly matches the particle but with opposite charge. After the discovery of the positron, anti-proton and anti-neutron, Dirac’s Theory of Symmetry speculated on the existence of anti-planets, and anti-stars.

In 1948, Hermann Bondi, Thomas Gold, and Fred Hoyle proposed the Steady State Universe Model, which assumed the universe was composed of equal qualities of matter and antimatter.  The Steady State Universe was supported by the discovery of anti-protons and anti-neutrons in 1955 and 1956. Fred Hoyle coined the name "Big Bang Universe."  With the discovery of microwave background radiation in 1965, the scientific community split into the scientific Plasma Universe model and the religious Big Bang Universe Model:

  • In 1966, Hannes Alfven, Father of Modern Plasma Science, developed Plasma Universe Model or scientific model by incorporate the observed motions into the Steady State Model.  Alfven received the Nobel Prize for his contributions to basic plasma physics and space plasmas.  Anthony Peratt  generated computer models that simulated the known galaxies in the universe.  Two black holes are located in the center of galaxies. One black hole is composed of matter and the other is antimatter. As the black holes osculate, they eject matter and antimatter in opposite directions into space forming spiral arms of matter and antimatter stars. In our galaxy, the sun is one of the billions of stars that are composed of matter and there are a similar number of antimatter stars.
  • The Big Bang Model or religious model was conceived in by Georges LeMaitre, Catholic Priest and astrophysicist and assumes that most of the antimatter was annihilated billions of years ago in a Big Bang.  In 1995, astronomers were astounded to observe fountains of antimatter extending thousands of light-years from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and other galaxies.  Today, most astronomers believe that Big Bang Model has serious flaws and have written papers on the dark matter, which is ionized particles or plasma within galaxies. By defining dark matter as a plasma (fourth state of matter), they can move gracefully from the Big Bang to the Plasma Universe Model.  However, this paradigm represents a quantum leap for many scientists.

For the last fifty years, physicists have built accelerators to discover new elementary particles. In 1967, Steven Weinberg theorized that weak forces and electromagnetic were the same at high energy levels, which was confirmed by physicists at CERN and Fermilab in 1973. Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow, and Abdus Salam, were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1979.

  • In 1982 and 1984, UA1 and UA2 collaborations at CERN discovered W and Z bosons. Carlo Rubbia and Simon Van der Meer received a Nobel Prize for their contributions for making, storing and colliding antimatter and discovering the W and Z bosons.  Today, the Standard Model unifies the weak and electromagnetic theories into electro-weak theory. 
  • Scientists have confirmed matter-antimatter symmetry between the elementary particles. Physicists have identified the elementary building blocks (six quarks, six leptons, six anti-quarks and six anti-leptons) along with their force carriers.  Fermilab physicists are looking for the Higgs boson that gives particles mass; and CERN scientists will be using the Large Hadrons Collider to look for the Higgs boson at high energies.

In April 2002, Norm Hansen announced the discovery that comets are composed of antimatter to the joint meeting of American Physical Society and American Astronomical Society. When antimatter enters our solar system, it is called comets.  The comet's plasma coma and tails are created by the solar wind and dust particles blasting antimatter fragments, dust and ions off the comet's surface.  On July 23, 2002, a sungrazer comet collided with the sun and released enough energy to supply the world's energy needs for 10,000 years.  Light and x-rays are produced from matter-antimatter annihilation taking place on the comet's surface and in the plasma coma and tails.

  • The amount of antimatter in our solar system is a million times less than scientists had estimated.  Antimatter is mirror image of matter and is also composed of elements. The updated Periodic Table of Elements has 109 matter and 109 antimatter elements.  Each of the antimatter element’s nuclear, physical, and chemical properties have been defined to such an extent that people know almost as much about antimatter as matter. 
  • After seventy-five years of research by thousands of scientists and engineers, Dirac’s Theory of Matter-Antimatter Symmetry exist for black holes, stars, planets, asteroids, dust particles, elements, and elementary particles.   When matter and antimatter come together, energy is produce according to Einstein's Theory, E = mc2.  The technology exist to safely acquire, store, process and use antimatter as a natural source of energy.

On 4th of July 2005, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft's collision with 9P/Tempel 1 comet confirms that comets are natural sources of antimatter. Within 21st century, antimatter energy will provide power for people's homes and businesses  and will bring every country into the 21st century without destroying our environment.  Billions of people will be traveling in spacecraft to space stations orbiting earth in minutes, the moon in hours, colonies on the planets in days, and with advanced technology,  the stars in weeks. The Star Trek dream will become reality.


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