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To: Lonesome in Massachussets; Mind-numbed Robot

Lonesome in Massachussets: How about a neutron and an anti-proton? Do you happen to know of a table of subatomic particles that shows which particles and anti-particles will annihilate if they come into contact?

Good question, Mind-numbed Robot. I had never considered it before.


9 posted on 07/07/2011 3:01:16 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Google antimatter and look in wikipedia. Every particle is believed to have an antiparticle.


11 posted on 07/07/2011 3:16:31 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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To: LibWhacker

“How about a neutron and an anti-proton?”

By themselves, the neutron doesn’t directly interact with the anti-proton, I think; but the neutron can lose a bit of energy (e=mc^2 and all that) and decay into a proton. They aren’t static marbles, subatomic particles are changing state all the time. There’s a full menagerie of them (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_particles) and their relationships and interactions are quite interesting.


15 posted on 07/07/2011 4:03:28 AM PDT by Moose Burger
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