Positrons are the antimatter counterparts to electrons.

正电子是电子的反物质。

This isn't anything like we find on earth, or even antimatter.

这和我们在地球中找到的物质完全不同，甚至和反物质都不一样。

Scientists at CERN first produced antimatter in 1996 in an experiment that created antihydrogen.

欧洲核子研究组织的科学家于1996年在一次制造反氢的实验中首次制造出了反物质。

But just because physicists can make antimatter does not mean they understand everything about it.

但物理学家能够制造反物质，并不意味着他们了解它的一切。

Famously, however, matter and antimatter annihilate on contact and disappear in a puff of pure energy.

但众所周知的是，物质与反物质一经接触即告湮灭，在喷射出纯能量的同时消失。

A friendly gluon explains: there are an equal number of matter and antimatter particles.

这里有相同数量的物质和反物质粒子。

Everyone places their matter and antimatter cubes in a ring.

每个人都将他们的物质和反物质立方体放在一个环中。

But still, most studies have not yet been able to give clear answers about what exactly antimatter is.

但是，大多数研究还没有能够给出关于反物质到底是什么的明确答案。

I was at a physics workshop last month in Munich. There were seminars on black holes and antimatter.

上个月我去慕尼黑参加了一个研讨会。 会上讨论了宇宙黑洞和反物质。

But one of the most profound and intriguing outcomes of the Dirac Equation was the prediction of antimatter.

但狄拉克方程最深刻、最有趣的结果之一是对反物质的预测。

If you're lucky and avoid being destroyed by antimatter, you'll be the seed of a future galaxy.

你如果很幸运没被反粒子破坏，你就成为了未来星系中的种子。

Each of the 27,182 attendees has brought a cube of matter and a cube of antimatter.

27182 名与会者中的每一个都带了一个物质和一个反物质立方体。

For each matter cube, add one, and for each antimatter cube, subtract one.

对于每个物质立方体，加一，对于每个反物质立方体，减一。

Antimatter is thought to mirror all forms of normal matter.

反物质被认为是所有形式正常物质的反状态。

Wouldn't equal amounts of matter and antimatter just annihilate each other, and why do we even exist?

等量的物质与反物质不是应该互相湮灭么？为什么我们竟然还存在？

Antimatter and matter are mutually destroyed and excess matter formed the universe that we have now.

反物质和物质相互毁灭，多余的物质形成了我们现在的宇宙。

The scientists said their result demonstrates that gravity causes antimatter to fall toward the center of the Earth.

科学家表示，他们的结果表明，重力导致反物质向地球中心坠落。

Ceard added, " However, we are here… So it means at some point, matter took over the antimatter" .

" 然而，我们现在在这里… … 所以这意味着在某个时刻，物质替代了反物质。"

These may be an electron and its antimatter equivalent, a positron, or two heavier leptons, a muon and an antimuon.

它们可能是一个电子和它的反物质等价物，一个正电子，或者两个更重的轻子，一个介子和一个反介子。

Your survival depends on the matter particles to your right buffering you from antimatter.

你的生存取决于你右边的物质粒子，它把你和反物质隔开。