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SolidusSpriggan wrote
I read somewhere that antimatter was identical to matter in all form except charge, meaning that whether the particle is matter or antimatter is only a matter of perspective in relation to the dominant charges of particles in our universe, and that a universe could have just have easily been formed of anti matter and what we call matter would be the anti matter of that universe. Is that at all correct?
And if so, why matter and not anti matter?
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that's right. And we don't know where all the antimatter is. Current theories suggest it should have been created in equal measure, but clearly it wasn't or we wouldn't be here. Either some asymmetry in the big bang led to a preponderance of one over the other, or we are really off base about the structure of spacetime and the mechanisms that led to the formation of matter in the early universe. This is one of the many reasons why we need to study the fucking Higgs Boson.
If it had been what we now call antimatter we would just have called it matter.