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Summary for this work in layman terms:

https://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/anderson.html

The positive electron (positron) appears to have been the first anti-particle identified.




Yea. Positive and negative muons and pions were found after WWII. The anti-proton wasn't discovered until 1955 following the construction of the Bevatron, an accelerator powerful enough to reach the proton/anti-proton rest mass of ~1 GeV (i.e., a Billion eV).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevatron


There are positrons passing through the room you are in right now...


Anti-particles and particles instantly annihilate each other on contact, so anti-particles cannot not exist in our world besides for brief moments.

There's a theory that half of the universe is made of anti-particles (and the other half composed of regular particles). So you could say that the half we inhibit has few anti-particles in it.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation


They're also created all the time by radioactive decay which happens in common building materials. So yes, they'll be flying around your room now, but not going much further than that.


Some of us occasionally do go outside


If you're taking that as an insult, I think implying that you use HN outdoors just makes it worse.


Yep need to take out the trash. There needs to be a service for that.




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