How to Use antiparticle in a Sentence

antiparticle

noun
  • Its antiparticle twin, though, could get sucked into the black hole.
    — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The antiparticle version of an electron, for instance, is a positron.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2021
  • If there were an equal number of particles and antiparticles, nothing would exist.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
  • Then the antiparticles are cryogenically cooled to keep them at low energy.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2026
  • In science fiction, antiparticles provide the power for warp drives.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Peper only tantalizes us with the vaguest contours of what the feed and its antiparticle, Analog, are like.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 6 May 2018
  • But just like looking in a mirror reverses left and right, the electrical charges of antiparticles are reversed.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The resultant movement is that of a particle-antiparticle pair moving sideways in a straight line.
    — Thomas Lewton, Wired, 1 Aug. 2021
  • But a particle and an antiparticle that materialize on either side of a black hole’s event horizon get dragged apart.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The intensity is large enough that electrons and their antiparticle, positrons, are produced from the vacuum.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2017
  • The antiproton trap contains a magnetic field that spins the antiparticles in a circle, suspending them in space.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2026
  • This means there have to be some differences between particles and antiparticles, and some new physics to explain those differences.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2017
  • With these fields, the researchers were able to enable the spontaneous creation of particle-antiparticle pairs from nothing at all.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Sep. 2022
  • In the first step of this fusion process, two protons inside the sun fuse into a deuteron while giving off a neutrino and a positron—the antiparticle of the electron.
    — Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
  • In this case, a square might arise so that one antiparticle lies on top of the original particle, annihilating that corner.
    — Thomas Lewton, Wired, 1 Aug. 2021
  • In these early stages, every set of particle-antiparticle pairs has both a creation rate and an annihilation rate.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • This self-annihilation is like that of a particle and antiparticle pair, except that here both members of the pair are identical.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The researchers were studying antineutrinos, a type of antiparticle.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2016
  • These antiparticles are identical in mass to their regular counterparts.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
  • This leaves behind the second square’s opposite side, also consisting of a particle and an antiparticle.
    — Thomas Lewton, Wired, 1 Aug. 2021
  • But through some very complex and exceedingly technical processes, a particle that is its own antiparticle can acquire a mass.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 11 June 2024
  • The trap also maintains an ultrahigh vacuum so that there’s no chance that any regular particles will collide with the antiparticles.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2026
  • This is created when pairs of particles and their antiparticles quickly pop into and out of existence, which happens pretty much everywhere all the time.
    — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Scientists observed the antiparticle for the first time in 1970 by producing it in a collider.
    — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2022
  • There’s a very real possibility that neutrinos are also their own antiparticles.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 11 June 2024
  • Some physicists have speculated that antiparticles are being repelled by gravity or even traveling backward in time.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Hawking wanted to know what would happen to pairs of particles—a particle and its antiparticle partner—that spontaneously appeared at a black hole’s event horizon.
    — Adam Mann, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • An electron and its antiparticle, a positron, have identical properties except for charge, but the charge of the Majorana particle would be zero.
    — Neil Savage, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
  • The particle-antiparticle pairs that form near a black hole are now known as Hawking pairs, and the radiation is called Hawking radiation.
    — James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Thanks to quantum uncertainty, the vacuum roils with particle-antiparticle pairs flitting in and out of existence too fast to detect directly.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 20 Mar. 2018

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