Is it worth creating antimatter?

... Is it Worthwhile creating antimatter? ANTIMATTER 3 WHAT IS ANTIMATTER? 3 SPECIFIC TYPES OF ANTIPARTICLES 3 POSITRON 4 ANTINUCLEONS 4 CREATIONS AND DESTRUCTIONS 5 BETA RADIATION 5 NEGATIVE BETA RADIATION 5 POSITIVE BETA RADIATION 6 POSITRON-ELECTRON ANNIHILATION 7 HOW DO WE STORE AND CREATE ANTIMATTER? 9 CURRENT ANTIMATTER PRODUCTION 9 PRODUCTION OF ANTIPROTONS 9 ANTIMATTER ATOMS 10 PENNING TRAP 10 USES OF ANTIMATTER? 13 ENERGY PRODUCTION 13 MILITARY WEAPONRY 15 MEDICAL IMAGING 16 PRODUCTION OF POSITRONS 16 IMAGING 16 IS IT WORTHWHILE CREATING ANTIMATTER? 17 CONCLUSION 17 IS IT WORTH CREATING ANTIMATTER NOW? 17 IS IT WORTH FUNDING RESEARCH INTO ANTIMATTER? 17 APPENDICES 18 APPENDIX A: TABLE OF FIGURES 18 APPENDIX B: BIBLIOGRAPHY 19 APPENDIX C: SYNOPTIC LINKS 20 Antimatter What is antimatter? For each of the fermions (leptons and quarks) detailed above, they have a corresponding anti-particle. These particles are in no way different to ours, except for the opposition of charge. In essence, there is no reason why our universe couldn't have been made from antimatter, and if it were, then we would classify our normal matter as antimatter. What this means is that antimatter merely has the anti prefix because it is not what we are used to. There is no deep meaning to it. For each elementary

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