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Listener Questions about Annihilation

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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An Electron Can't Anominate With a Positron

An electron has an anti version of itself called the depositron. The positron, because it was the first one discovered, got a special name: "positron" A muon can't annihilate with a positon; electrons cannot be created and destroyed nilly in the universe. But i guess the mystery then is that,. I think, you know, the electron matches with thepoatron because they have opposite charges - so they get really close to each other., David writes. Wouldn't the same thing happen if, like, an electron med with its anti heavier ousin? Wouldn't they have the opposite charge and still attract each other? That's exactly what dave

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