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To: shibumi

What is the difference between an anti-proton and an electron?
How do they create anti-matter?


5 posted on 07/07/2011 1:51:07 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (I retain the right to be inconsistent, contradictory and even flat-out wrong!)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot

An anti-proton has the same mass as a proton, which is much greater than the mass of the electron. An electron and an anti-proton cannot interact to anihilate one another.


8 posted on 07/07/2011 2:52:04 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
“What is the difference between an anti-proton and an electron?
How do they create anti-matter?”

Good questions. I think it helps to keep in mind that these are just names given to particles and may not accurately represent the full extent of their physical characteristics.

20 posted on 07/07/2011 5:32:09 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
Mass and the antimatter particles’s lifetime here. The difference is mainly mass though.
37 posted on 07/07/2011 8:31:36 PM PDT by allmost
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