Antimatter

:For the physics of antimatter, see the article on antiparticles.

Antimatter in popular culture

A famous fictional example of antimatter in action is in the science fiction franchise Star Trek, where it is a common energy source for starships. Antimatter engines also appear in various books of the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. In Niven's Ringworld series, antimatter appears as a weapon useful against even the super-dense matter scrith. Dan Brown explores the use of antimatter as a weapon in his novel Angels and Demons, where terrorists threaten to destroy the Vatican with potentially unstable antimatter stolen from CERN. In The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton, antimatter is characterized as the most dangerous substance imaginable and outlawed across the Galaxy. Antimatter is also briefly referenced in the 1966 movie "Batman," (several evil henchmen are turned into antimatter when they are revived using "heavy water" from the batcave), but the concept remains completely unexplained in this example. Also, in the episode of Doctor Who, "The Planet of Evil", the scientist Dr Sorenson is transformed into an 'antiman' due to exposure to antimatter.

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Science fiction - Star Trek - Starship - Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey - Niven's - Ringworld - Scrith - Dan Brown - Weapon - Angels and Demons - Vatican - CERN - The Night's Dawn Trilogy - Peter F. Hamilton - Doctor Who

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In comic books produced by DC Comics, the notion of an antiuniverse, or in DC's parlance Anti-Matter Universe, was first utilized in the Green Lantern series in the 1960s. The Anti-Matter Universe contains a world known as Qward, home to the Green Lantern Corps' sworn enemies, the Weaponers of Qward.

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Comic books - DC Comics - Green Lantern - 1960s - Qward - Green Lantern Corps

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In 1985, a powerful, twisted denizen of the Anti-Matter Universe known as the Anti-Monitor succeeded in destroying most of the DC Multiverse during the events of the twelve-issue limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths.

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1985 - Anti-Monitor - Multiverse - Crisis on Infinite Earths

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