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Why do matter and antimatter annihilate? (bigthink.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Bebo@literature.cafe to c/science@lemmy.world
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From forming bound states to normal scattering, many possibilities abound for matter-antimatter interactions. So why do they annihilate? There’s a quantum reason we simply can’t avoid.

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[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 14 points 5 months ago (18 children)

I'm a smoothbrain, so I like to think about it as them simply canceling each other out. What I'm more curious about though, is why there's so much matter compared to antimatter.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago

so I like to think about it as them simply canceling each other out.

No, that's the result.

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