Waves & Whirlpools: on Energy, Structure, Matter, & Antimatter (Part II)

In our last post, we introduced the pond--the surface of a body of water serving as an intriguing analogy for spacetime--with waves as a transient expression of energy, much like photons or gravitational waves, and eddies representing charged particles like protons and electrons. We found that two whirlpools spinning the same direction will repel one another, much like two particles of the same charge--but what about ones spinning opposite directions?AntimatterEvery known type of matter has a co...