If matter is anything that takes up space then does anti-matter not take up space? Could you store an infinite amount of anti-matter in a dixie cup?
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Anti matter also takes up space ... ... No ... you would need to store anti matter in a special containment field, so it does not come into contact with positive matter ... if you just put it in a Dixie cup, it would react with both the cup and air ... also, you would be limited to the amount you could store based on the volume of the containment field.
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Anti-matter DOES take up as much space as regualr Matter does, thats why when the two collide they annialate each other, I think your thinking a Singularity maybe?
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Georgia Pacific, makers of the Dixie Cup™, do not recommend using their product for the containment or transport of anti-matter.
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Matter is anything with mass. Taking up space is a secondary feature. Anti-matter has many of the same properties as ordinary matter. Anti-water, for example, would be expected to have the same properties (density, boiling point, etc.) as ordinary water. You could store anti-matter in a Dixie cup only if it were made of anti-matter, too -- an anti-Dixie cup.
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Same space, just a different flavour
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