The researchers first successfully measured the color of antimatter

The material is the same as the number 2 and the number (-2), so adding is equal to 0 and both are the answer of the square root of 4.

When this Universe was formed after the Big Bang occurred, the theory was that matter and antimatter were produced equally. But today, our Universe is almost entirely composed of matter. When matter and antimatter meet, they will dissipate and, in theory, release pure energy.

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So how does matter occupy most of the Universe, and why is it so rare for antimatter now? This is a big question that physicists have been scratching their heads for years. But it's good because if antimatter has the same amount as matter, this Universe has disappeared.

Material and antimatter MUST have certain differences to answer this question, and at the same time explain to us how this material universe was formed. New research published in the middle of last week in Nature showed that its spectral structure "has a color that has never been observed before". This study was carried out by the European Nuclear Research Organization CERN, where the Large Particle Collider is located.

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Its spectral structure "has a color that has never been observed before".

Until now, antimatter is still the same material that we still know, but accurate tests have given us a comparison of matter and antimatter to be more accurate, and then it will definitely find the reason. why matter occupies most of the volume of the Universe.

The ALPHA team at CERN has experimented with anti-hydrogen, antimatter of hydrogen. Hydrogen itself has been studied for a long time, so it will be the perfect momentum for this study.

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ALPHA spokesman Jeff Hangst is standing at the antimatter production plant.

To obtain anti-hydrogen, scientists from the ALPHA team use the antiproton accelerator to create antiprotons - particles that are closely related to positrons (positrons are antiparticles). Counter-hydrogen needs to be studied carefully, because if they are exposed to matter, they will dissipate.

The next step after creating anti-hydrogen is to keep it safe in a magnetic trap. When fixing it, scientists will be able to fire lasers into it to carry out the urbanization.

They were able to observe and measure the spectral shape of the anti-hydrogen, when it was at the lowest energy state until it entered the first energy-excited state. After measuring, it turned out to be . like hydrogen.

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Antimatter is also colored as material.

"This hydrogen measurement is the most accurately measured quantity in physical history," said York University physics professor Scott Menary of the project he cooperated with this CERN. "Results up to 15 decimal places". Being able to compare hydrogen and anti-hydrogen after this test will be considered the "norm" of this field of study.

As Professor Menary told the Motherboard newspaper, hydrogen and anti-hydrogen still look the same. He added that this is "unfortunate" , because any difference will open new ideas, new research and experiments. But not yet! Technology development speed has been improved at a dizzying speed, maybe in the future we will find a more accurate result.

"Material and antimatter are fundamental aspects of physics," Makoto Fujiwara of ALPHA team once affirmed. "If we find any big difference, we might have to rewrite the history of the whole Universe."