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Antimatter and Time

Zarnaxus
in Modern and Theoretical Physics

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I have heard once that antimatter is similar to regular matter, execpt it has the opposite charge AND it is travelling backward in time.

 

I am not exactly sure the source from which i got this information, but i would like it to be clarified. How does it work? How did someone discover this? and why does it make sense?

Antimatter is indistinguishable from matter traveling backward in time, owing to the symmetries involved (charge, parity and time-reversal). That's not quite the same as saying it is matter traveling backward in time.

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so how did someone reach this conclusion and how does it make sense (why is it indistinguishable from matter traveling backward in time)?

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