Antimatter is a term used in physics and chemistry, to define matter composed of antiparticles, for example an antiproton (negatively charged proton) or an antielectron (positively charged electron), they are those that make up an antimatter atom, in the same way that an electron and a proton make up a hydrogen atom.
Antimatter, as its name implies, is the opposite of matter, that is, a matter made up of particles with an electrical charge opposite to the normal one. When a matter and an antimatter come into contact, they cause the destruction of both, that is, a transformation would occur where the matter would be converted into energy.
According to cosmic theory, equal amounts of locked matter and antimatter are present in the universe (for obvious reasons), in distant areas. However, when these are found, great phenomena of destruction occur.
Antimatter was discovered in 1932 by the American physicist Carl Anderson, at that time Anderson was investigating the behavior of cosmic rays, when by chance he observed and photographed a positron. Thus finding antimatter. This discovery credited him to receive a Nobel Prize in 1936.
Later, antiprotons were discovered, this was made possible by the Pamela satellite, launched in 2006. This satellite's mission was to carry out a study of the energy particles of the sun. With the passage of time, man perfected the technique of artificially manufacturing an antiproton.
Through experiments it has been confirmed that when matter and antimatter collide, they neutralize and disappear. The matter that disappears is transformed into gamma radiation; confirming in this way what was expressed in Einstein's theory of relativity, which predicted the reversibility between matter and energy.
Antimatter has various uses: it can be used as fuel. It can also be used to generate energy, since it is one of the most powerful sources of energy that humanity has known, in addition to being non-polluting; a single drop is capable of producing (for one day) electrical energy to an entire city.
In the medical area, the main application of antimatter is "positron emission tomography". The gamma rays that are derived from the annihilation of matter and antimatter, are used to locate tumor tissues in the body. They are also being applied in cancer therapies, it is expected that with the use of antiprotons, cancerous tissues can be destroyed.
