So I can become the Hulk if exposed to Anti-Matter?
Theoretically, if your cells could survive being inundated with the radiation, and your DNA underwent a rare mutation that would mimic this change, it is possible. But abysmally unlikely. You'd have a better chance of winning the lottery every day for the rest of your life.
So, on this same tangent, what's the difference between antimatter and dark energy / dark matter? I've never really understood the distinction.. is it a possibility that they're the same thing? If so, then inter-galactic travel would be impossible, since the idea is that dark energy holds the universe together.. we'd explode.
That's sad if its true
Antimatter and Dark Energy/Matter are not the same. In theory if Dark Matter were to be found, it would also have an antidark matter particle. It is theorized to be a heavy particle, and also an abundant one, as it is supposed to consist of 22% of the universe. Dark Energy is often attributed to be the cause of the universe's increasing rate of expansion, and accounts for 74% of the energy density of the universe. All the stars, galaxies, and light we see from the
entire universe makes up
4% of our universe. It is called "dark" because it makes no electromagnetic interaction, nor does it seem to make a strong and weak force interaction, with other particles and energy. It only has gravitational effects.
One glib answer is that if there were equal amounts of matter and anti-matter, they would keep annahialating each other, and then we wouldn't be around to ask the question (nor continue to call the things we do encounter readily as matter, and their anti-particles as anti-matter). This is a very unsatisfying answer.
Yes! I hate the anthropic principle, and all of its cousins, with an absolute passion. If we can't observe it, it doesn't seem like it should be there. There is something terribly wrong with gravity. Its stark contrast from the other 3 forces is something I cannot get over.