What would the largest anti-matter object be?

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Any suggestions to what the largest anti-matter object would be?

Would it be just anti-particles, or would it be anti-hydrogen, or anti-carbon, larger anti-atoms, or multiple anti-atom object, or anti-one_kilogram object, or anti-planet,
or antistar, or anti-galaxy, or anti-cluster, or anti-universe?
 
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It could be any of the items proposed. However, as far as actual existence is concerned, there isn't any evidence of any anti-matter except at the particle level or anti-hydrogen (created in laboratories).
 
There are wild speculations that segments of the universe could contain whole antimatter galaxies. We wouldn't know it since photons are matter-antimatter agnostic.

But it is exceedingly unlikely.
 
There are wild speculations that segments of the universe could contain whole antimatter galaxies. We wouldn't know it since photons are matter-antimatter agnostic.

But it is exceedingly unlikely.
Immediately after the big bang, the universe was much more crowded, so it is highly unlikely that anti-matter could have been segregated from matter.
 
mathman said:
Immediately after the big bang, the universe was much more crowded, so it is highly unlikely that anti-matter could have been segregated from matter.

I think the segregation is supposed to have occurred during rapid inflationary epochs
 
I think the segregation is supposed to have occurred during rapid inflationary epochs

Thigs were flying around so fast, it is hard to see that anything could segregate.
 
It is highly unlikely macroscopic amounts of anti-matter [more than atomic particle sized] exist within our universe. There is no viable mechanism explaining how they became segregated. Were they not segregated, life on Earth would be difficult to explain. This is a fairly significant mystery in any cosmological model. There is no mechanism to explain the disparity, but an abundance of evidence exists suggesting the disparity is real.
 
nearly impossible for there to be large ammounts of anitmatter.
 
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