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I think that it should be called Antihelium--4(Antihelium negative four). After all, Antiparticles are basically negative versions(negative numbers, not charge) of particles. 32ieww ( talk) 01:37, 12 February 2017 (UTC) 32ieww ( talk) 01:37, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
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The article uses the term "ordinary matter" but this term is confusing because it is often used to refer to atomic matter. Isn't the term "common matter" a less-ambiguous term for matter that is not antimatter? DavRosen ( talk) 22:43, 30 May 2018 (UTC) antiantimatter Sci09272 ( talk) 19:44, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
What exactly does it mean "microscopic numbers of antimatter particles are generated daily at particle accelerators"? Microscopic? Surely all particles are microscopic? Or the numbers are exceedingly small? Which would surely be a confusing colloquialism given the subject? Can't make sense of it. Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:93D0:3600:1152:49BB:185A:23DB ( talk) 15:29, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi, as its essentially been discounted that antimatter behaves much differently than matter in a gravitational field many of the assumptions on which the "antimatter moving back in time" hypothesis originally proposed by Feynman can be modified to include a simpler mechanism.
Its possible that at some level another mechanism may prevent "anti-stars" being stable therefore explaining the lack of antimatter clusters in the visible Universe, one such mechanism may well be that the weak nuclear force is different for antimatter. The side effect of this would be that elements that are not currently stable would be if they contained only anti-particles and this could be detected by measuring spectra from non-stellar regions of the Universe thus proving this hypothesis.
This can actually be tested: experiments have generated anti-helium and it behaves in a very similar way to normal helium. I wondered a little while back if antimatter could be the "spark" that initiated the first stars and could account for some anomalies in CMB. Also recent experiments show a distinct difference in the predicted versus actual behavior of positronium "atoms" suggesting that the Standard Model may require some adjustment.
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There is no real distinction between the terms antimatter and antiparticle(s), and the overlap between these two articles already is huge (e.g. both explained annihilation, both explain the production and detection of positrons, antiprotons and antineutrons, both explain the capture of positrons and antiprotons to form antihydrogen, etc. 81.107.39.90 ( talk) 23:35, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Antihydrogen is also clearly on topic for antiparticle, antiparticle does not just mean fundamental antiparticles. In addition the antiparticle article already discusses antihydrogen just like the antimatter article. 81.107.39.90 ( talk) 13:50, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
The antiparticle article doesn't really contain anything about subatomic antiparticles that isn't already contained in the antimatter article. The only part of the antiparticle article that isn't already covered in the antimatter article is the "Properties" and "Quantum field theory" and "Dirac hole theory" sections, which is a fairly large portion of the article, but none of them are specific to fundamental antiparticles and all of which should be on the antimatter article anyway (Even if antimatter only referred to composite antiparticles not fundamental, which it does not). Everything that is specific to fundamental antiparticles in the antiparticle article, is already in the antimatter article. 81.107.39.90 ( talk) 14:10, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Would reverse matter not more fit as definition for this atomic systems? 2A02:AA11:9102:3D80:94D9:4928:F250:4A62 ( talk) 17:31, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
1} Conceptual history section, para 2: "differed from the modern concept of antimatter in that it possessed negative gravity." Umm, while they have been working on it since 2016, the ALPHA-g experiment only ran preliminary tests in 2018 before CERN was shut down for its upgrade, and only now (2022) has beam come back on. They are still a long way from publishing their results. Until that time, we will not have demonstrated that antimatter actually falls down in gravity (however extremely likely that would be).
2) Section Artificial production, subsection Antihydrogen atoms, para. 1: "it had successfully brought into existence nine hot antihydrogen atoms by implementing the SLAC/Fermilab concept". What "SLAC/Fermilab concept"? There is no mention of this in the main antihydrogen wiki article linked from the subsection title, either, though it seems likely this is a reference to the text there "using a method first proposed by Charles Munger Jr, Stanley Brodsky and Ivan Schmidt Andrade." This all needs some clarification. 2001:56A:F0E9:9B00:2511:25BE:32B9:C4C2 ( talk) 02:19, 22 November 2022 (UTC)JustSomeWikiReader
In the first paragraph it says: "Antimatter —- it’s a visionary substance that you will see in your human computer vision like a hologram when you are contacted by God." I don't think that's what antimatter is. 195.59.7.254 ( talk) 10:57, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
The last paragraph of the Antimatter#Conceptual_history section claims that the Feynman-Stueckelberg interpretation says that antiparticles behave like normal particles traveling backward in time. I believe this is correct, but the source [20] isn't relevant to this claim. To give you an idea, it has none of the words "feynman", "stueckelberg", or "backward". It's about relative amounts of matter and antimatter in the universe, which is different topic. (There is one mention of "time reversal" in the introduction, referring to a different phenomenon, which may be the source of the confusion, or maybe someone just accidentally cited the wrong source). 2002:62B9:EB03:1:DA22:6020:6328:5E1F ( talk) 23:43, 22 June 2024 (UTC)