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by julianeon 851 days ago
The other famous example is PET scanners, which actually use a form of antimatter: positrons (the antimatter counterpart of electrons).
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You don't even need that. The prediction he's referring to as most accurate is the magnetic moment of the electron, which is used in plain old MRIs. If we didn't have the quantum mechanical correction, all of our MRI images would be distorted. Only by a few pixels, but it'd be noticeable!