Antimatter and Explosions

We've now covered the situations at the beginning of the universe and the Theory of Relativity, keep in mind that this is all in the course of 2 chapters. Now Dr.'s Tyson and Goldsmith introduce us to a subject that's on everyone's minds, inter dimensional sci-fi and other stuff, "...particle physicists must contend with a parallel universe of antiparticles, collectively known as antimatter. Despite its persistent appearance in science fiction stories, antimatter is real... it does tend to annihilate upon contact with ordinary matter" (Tyson and Goldsmith 46).

The discovery of antimatter was made in 1932 when Carl David Anderson discovered the anti-electron (Tyson and Goldsmith 46), in theory, every particle has an opposite version with an opposite charge, positive or negative, and through the use of the giant particle accelerator (CERN supercollider, whatever you want to call it) in Switzerland, scientists have been able to make these antiparticles a reality. When I make enough money, that's where I'm going to go for vacation, who needs Hawaii?

The idea of using these reverse particles in our own world faces a major issue, when scientists created antimatter themselves, they started with the easiest element to create, antihydrogen, each of the 9 atoms created annihilated within the first 40 nanoseconds of creation (Tyson and Goldsmith 47), it'd help to keep this in mind if you were thinking of creating your own element any time soon. In the meantime, please enjoy this picturesque graphic of a particle meeting an antiparticle. (Please read from left to right)

Antimatter is very unstable, but when paired with its own kind, it's near impossible to tell the difference between it and normal matter... until it explodes in an enormous release of energy. Modern physics we know of dictates that everything in the universe be balanced, with this idea, where are our anti atoms? I like to question myself and stuff around me a lot and this question gets to me since I read it in Dr.'s Tyson and Goldsmith's book, if our universe is full of normal particles, where are the opposites?

Here's my own question for you, do you believe that, with the existence of antimatter, there are other dimensions where they confide? If so, how do you think we'd be able to travel there, if at all, when everything from our dimension (us included) would disintegrate upon contact with their particles?

(Does this post ruin your image of a perfect interdimensional vacation?)

Tyson, Neil DeGrasse and Goldsmith, Donald. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution. Norton & co. Inc.(USA)2005, reissued 2014. Print