Antimatter doesn't naturally occur on Earth, or does it?

WOOT! HIGH FIVE! I love science. Got a link?

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/12/storms-create-thunder-lightning-antimatter/?xid=rss-politics-huffpo

@Winters Yeah cool, interesting stuff..

Wow. Finally an explanation for the black hole I’m in at the moment!

Seriously, the electrical implications make perfect sense. I will read more. Thanks for the scientific nudge.

These two articles shed a bit more on this phenomenon…the second one is pretty interesting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12158718

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/10/thunderstorms-proven-to-create-antimatter/

Remarkable! Just remarkable!

Awesome!

It does.

It’s natural but short lived. In addition to thunderstorms here are two more examples

1) Beta decay for certain radioactive isotopes naturally occurring on Earth produce positrons.

2) In cosmic ray showers hitting Earth’s upper atmosphere, both muons and antimuons are produced about equally. Each antimuon decays into a positron, a muon-type antineutrino and an electron-type neutrino. There’s even muonium, an exotic atom made up of an antimuon and an electron, which was discovered in 1960 and is given the chemical symbol Mu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muonium