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Thank you, swansont. That's a cracking link.

Thank you, DrRocket! I had a track through some articles over the weekend too. They said small amounts of man-made too, not even equal to the weight of a small coin. Can I ask, then, does/would anti-matter react the same with dark matter (the ones that we know are there)? The fact it's matter suggests it would, so it might just be a redundant question. I suppose it should be: is there anything that doesn't react with anti-matter when it collides? I asked about light energy because it's not matter (in my limited knowledge anyway). And thank you for your reply. It helps to have explained in a way that's clear. 30s...? How did scientists discover the existence of anti-matter? If it was through radiation bursts, was it/is it present in Corona Mass Eruptions (i.e. in the traces found in ice on Earth)?

That's brilliant. Thank you, ajb You've been very helpful.

Thank you, ajb. Brilliant. That's given me something else to look into. Thank you. Link's added to favourites. Thank you for that too. Ah, which is why I failed science.... Can I take from that, then, that antimatter reacts with light energy and is purely propelled? I guess I'm thinking solar flares here, or CME's, supernovas, the radiation stream from blackholes, etc: anything that forces antimatter/matter to move? And thank you again for your help, ajb. It's a huge help.

*gulps* I'm just here to pick a brain or two. Hope you guys don't mind....

I'm a little nervous about this post. If there's a level of science beneath beginner, I'd still be too short to reach it. My science knowledge (beyond linguistics) is very, very limited. (I hope I have the right place here to ask this from you lovely people too.) May I ask two things: 1) If matter and anti-matter touch, creating an explosion, what effect would light energy have on anti-matter? 2) in order to stop anti-matter and matter touching, what kind of field would you need to surround the anti-matter? (As far as I remember, anti-matter is man-made, it's not been around since the big bang. Is this right?) Thank you for any help that's out there.