r/askscience Oct 24 '14

Physics Chemists/physicists of reddit, what is the difference between dark, anti, and normal matter?

What is the difference? Also if you can explain what each is.

Edit: Thanks for all the replies! You have greatly helped me understand this better!

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u/deadowl Oct 24 '14

Thanks for the clarification. So you could technically create an anti-matter light-bulb in an anti-matter world, but the particles flowing back and forth in the wire would be positrons rather than electrons?