Can You Touch Antimatter?

Can You Touch Antimatter? Can you touch antimatter? Our bodies also contain potassium-40, which means positrons are being emitted from you, too. Antimatter annihilates immediately on contact with matter, so these antimatter particles are very short-lived. Can you catch antimatter? Electrically-charged antimatter can be trapped in a device called a Penning trap. The Penning trap