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Adam Smith

UNBELIEVABLE: Scientists shocked as particle transforms between matter and antimatter for the first time | History Defined

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Subatomic particles can rapidly change between matter and antimatter, scientists have now found.

This groundbreaking discovery was made by monitoring charm mesons, which are subatomic particles that contain a quark (elementary particles, and fundamental block of matter) and an antiquark.

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