It may help to understand where that “missing antimatter” is if we just look around us. A proton has a positive charge–the sum of the quark polarities. If the (negative) electrical charge resident on the proton is in a reverse-time continuum, we would see it as positive. The mass remains the same. Hence, we have within the proton the antimatter charge of the electrical charge resident on the electron, that is, the electrical characteristics of a positron. Think of antimatter as being locked up in our protons.
Harold E. Blake
Tupper Lake, N.Y.
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