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The History of Antimatter
(by Rosy Mondardini)

The history of antimatter begins in 1928 with a young physicist named Paul Dirac and a strange mathematical equation...

The equation, in some way, predicted the existence of an antiworld identical to ours but made out of antimatter. Was this possible? if so, where and how could we search for antimatter?

From 1930, the search for the possible constituents of antimatter, antiparticles, began, and it has been the main influence behind a major scientific and technical evolution over the last 70 years.