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Why do matter and antimatter annihilate? (bigthink.com)

submitted 4 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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[–] Iapar@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why does it matter?

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing this is a pun that people are missing?

[–] Iapar@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago

Jupp.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 0 points 4 months ago (1 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 0 points 4 months ago

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

No, that's the result.