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Abstract The history of antimatter is always dated by Dirac’s trial to interpret the equation he derived from his quantization of the special theory of relativity. In fact this was really the time that people began to understand that there is another kind of objects recognized as ”antiparticles” should exist in nature. However, we notice that antimatter has armounced itself in two ways independently ( Nito and Hughes [55]) namely in non relativistic quantum mechanics and in the special theory of relativity although it is a direct consequence of the quantum relativity (or relativistic quantum mechanics). In the conventional quantum theory, Schrodinger found that the solution of his wave equation is obtained with the help of a complex wavefunction. He was, at the first moment, not able to understand the meaning of this result and thought that only the modulus ofthis wavefunction possesses a physical meaning. Later on, the wavefunction was understood to be the probability amplitude, and its complex nature was the key of predicting the existence of antimatter. In special relativity, on the other hand, there is a part called ”strong reflection”, in which all four coordinates of the special relativity, i.e. those of space and time, are reflected through the origin. The effect of this reflection on the equation is simply a change in the sign of the electric charge considered. So, for each solution the strong reflection allows for another one with opposite charge while other properties remain the same, that is it allows for the existence of what is called antimatter. |