Philip M. Papaelias,
Physics Dept, National University of Athens, Greece
Title: Antimatter in the Solar System
Biography
Biography: Philip M. Papaelias,
Abstract
One of the most important problem of Cosmology, is the abundance of antimatter in the Universe. It remained unexplained for decades and several theories had been developed to explain the observable absence of antimatter in our solar system and the rest of the Universe. Except of antiparticles produced by interactions, those models which had been presented are ranging from total absence of antimatter up to symmetric models. These results are based mainly on studies of cosmic rays, but detection of antimatter particles which may have their origin in astronomical sources are not able, up to now, to provide a clear answer. However, cosmic particles and gamma rays from the outer space are not the only entities which continually enter in the atmosphere. Meteors, asteroids and comets can also penetrate the atmosphere and those made of antimatter cannot be excluded, especially when there are several phenomena which can only be explained by such a kind of matter. One of them is the phenomenon of ball lightning, which had been characterized, in the past, as the most mysterious natural phenomenon which was unexplained and none of the presented hypotheses based on ordinary matter was capable of explaining its puzzling properties. During the past decades, I had developed a full theory for the behavior of an antimatter meteor fall in the atmosphere. Applying the results of those studies into several phenomena, it was found that they are also explaining the puzzling properties of the ball lightning. In this study, I shall present more results about the existence of antimatter in our Solar System.