Researchers at CERN have created and trapped antihydrogen in an
attempt to study the underpinnings of the standard model of
physics. Antihydrogen is made of antiparticles, specifically an
antiproton and a positron, instead of the proton and an electron
that are present in natural hydrogen. It has the same mass but
opposite charge of its normal matter counterparts.Continue
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Antimatter has a bad reputation for being dangerous because it
annihilates on contact with regular matter, releasing prodigious
amounts of energy. However, the clever reader will note that
they have not been annihilated by the antimatter produced at
CERN. The reality is that if you gathered all of the antimatter
CERN has ever created, you wouldn't garner enough energy to
power your laptop through reading this article. The Universe
seems to be made of mostly regular matter, so any antimatter
encounters matter and is annihilated immediately after it has
been created. Production and det