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The model of the universe in the previous chapter speculated that equal quantities of matter and antimatter constitute the universe, and, because they repulse each other, rarely the twain shall meet. However, if all matter and antimatter in the universe, through some magic, could be made to coincide spatially, the universe would wink out--disappear without a trace. The universe appears to exist only because antigravity keeps the matter and antimatter components apart.
As the universe first formed, apparently matter and antimatter conjugates were created at the same points in space and immediately repulsed each other to pool into separate groups. Over time, these groups attracted more and more of their kind until they became galaxies and antigalaxies. These formed into clusters and anticlusters and, then, into superclusters and antisuperclusters, and on and on.
Possibly, antigalaxies emit the same kind of radiation as is emitted by galaxies. Electromagnetic radiation seems to be half matter and half antimatter--interlocking occurrences of electrons and positrons at the speed of light.
As conjugate pairs in the energy mode, the mass of the electrons cancels the antimass of the positrons, so the energy beam's effective mass is zero.
Perhaps, antigravity modules or Antigrav Pacs could be created using a combination of neutrons and antineutrons. By suspending a minute, solid sphere of antineutrons in the center of a larger--although still microscopic--hollow sphere of neutrons through matter-antimatter repulsion, the two, concentric, spherically-symmetrical balls would remain in equilibrium--spatially separate.
Earth's gravity would repulse spheres containing more antineutrons than neutrons and, in essence, produce lift. Antigravity modules could be produced by mixing trillions of these balls into an amorphous liquid and hardening it into blocks of ordinary-looking material or Antigrav Pacs.
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