RE: Matter's evil twin - Antimatter

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Matter's evil twin - Antimatter

in stemng •  6 years ago  (edited)

Daring topic to approach, I must say. Some stuff about quantum mechanics isn't intuitive at all, hidden behind weird looking math symbols.

Same goes for any other form of matter. When they come together with their negative twin, they annihilate each other and give off energy in the form of gamma rays.

I wrote about the fusion that occurs in the sun about 2 days ago, and I was wondering where the positron that was emitted went. Somehow, since aren't exactly short of subatomic particles when fusion is discussed (Since tons of matter is constantly being converted to energy), I guess it must have found a twin electron and turned into the gamma ray that was given off at that stage. Adding this fact would make that article a bit more useful.

Thanks.

An antimatter bomb would be able to achieve this because when it reacts with matter, it does so with a 100% release of pure energy

Hmm. Energy it is.

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Oh, yeah that makes sense. It wouldn't even last long before getting annihilated. So it would have gone missing the instance it was produced.

You're welcome.

Weird looking maths symbol!! 😂😂😂