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!)
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.
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.
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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