How to Use antimatter in a Sentence

antimatter

noun

• Now, scientists have made some antimatter in a lab and used that to test one of these ideas.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2019
• The thing about antimatter is that there just really isn’t very much of it at all.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 31 Mar. 2021
• So the real thing about antimatter is that physicists don’t know very much about it.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 31 Mar. 2021
• Zandri and Hooker are like pop music’s matter and antimatter, and it’s among the film’s virtues to leave it doubt which is which.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2021
• In other words, does an antimatter droplet fall down or up?
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
• And there’s a universe where all your matter is replaced with antimatter, and so on.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2023
• This picture at first seemed just a manner of speaking but soon led to the discovery of antimatter.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 21 May 2018
• Even that tiny imbalance was sufficient to wipe out all of the antimatter in the universe in about one second.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
• Its precise descriptions of force fields and antimatter cannons seemed ready-made for the screen.
  — Samuel Horti, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• The first stage will see the FCC collide electrons with positrons, the antimatter electron counterpart.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 16 Jan. 2019
• Researchers have now shown for the first time that antimatter behaves in the same unintuitive way.
  — Bailey Bedford, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2019
• The experiment set out to measure cosmic rays to see if any of them came from antimatter.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2021
• What if there had been exactly equal amounts of matter and antimatter?
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• In the beginning, there was matter and antimatter, and then there was only matter.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2020
• At least four spacewalks are needed to fix the spectrometer, on the hunt for elusive dark matter and antimatter for 8 ½ years.
  — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• Both of these types of antimatter likely form during the collision of cosmic rays.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Oct. 2021
• The $2 billion instrument has been up there hunting for antimatter and dark matter for 8 ½ years.
  — Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• In the lab, Wu and Shaknov used it to bombard a sheet of copper with deuterons, generating an unstable isotope, Cu 64, as a source of positrons—the antimatter.
  — Michelle Frank, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• In a project that began last month, researchers will transport antimatter by truck and then use it to study the strange behaviour of rare radioactive nuclei.
  — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2018
• Antiquarks are the opposite of quarks and are considered a type of antimatter.
  — Caroline Delbert and Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
• In 1928, one man finally succeeded, and in the process, managed to predict the existence of antimatter.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2017
• The Blakes’ house and Faden’s workshop are matter and antimatter, absolute contraries.
  — Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine, 12 Oct. 2021
• So how did the researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf figure out how to generate antimatter?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2021
• But to isolate it in superfluid helium is a big job, one that Mills’s lab will do by tuning a special antimatter beam.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2019
• Instead, they are almost always found in groups of three in particles known as baryons—including the proton and neutron—or in pairs called mesons, which consist of a quark and an antimatter quark.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
• No, these mattresses are not stuffed with caviar or antimatter or five hundred and thirty-nine thousand dollars in unmarked bills.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• During this process the beauty quark turns into a strange quark and produces a pair of leptons—specifically, a lepton and its antimatter partner.
  — Andreas Crivellin, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2022
• And the decay of heavy neutrinos moments after the Big Bang has been suggested as the possible reason why there’s so much more matter than antimatter in the universe.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2021
• This would have caused the axion field to rotate, generating an excess of matter over antimatter.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Mar. 2020
• But some physicists pondered whether antimatter might instead be repulsed by gravity.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024