Scientists for the first time ever successfully measured the force of interaction between pairs of antiprotons. Physicists used a giant particle collider on Long Island, N.Y., to make antimatter and studied is with the help of a huge detector.

Aihong Tang, a researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory said that every single thing on earth is made up of matter starting from your laptop to your desk and chair everything is ordinary matter. But every fundamental particle of matter has an antimatter nemesis lurking in the shadows.

Joel Fajans, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, said, “We actually don't understand why antimatter is as rare as it actually is. The Big Bang should have produced just as much matter as anti-matter, but it didn't”.

Researchers for the experiment made small amounts of antimatter in the lab and studied the antimatter counterparts of protons. The antimatter version o proton is negatively charged and is called antiproton.

Tang during the experiment was successful in measuring the ‘Strong Nuclear Force" between two antiprotons. In an ordinary matter, the Strong Force plays the role to hold the atomic nuclei together, said tang.

But tang said they wanted to check whether the Strong Force could also hold antiprotons together.

The findings of the experiment presented in the journal Nature suggests that Strong Force works in the same way for antiprotons as it does for protons and they behave just like ordinary matter, said Tang.