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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/science

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Why does it matter?

[–] mumblerfish 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Jupp.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Understanding things leads to new possibilities.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If we could figure out how to use it to make sustainable reactors, we could probably produce a fuckton of energy? It can help us better understand our universe and advance science?

Why wouldn't it matter???

[–] SlopppyEngineer 3 points 7 months ago

Why wouldn’t it matter???

Because it's ... anti ... matter

badum-tss

[–] Zehzin 2 points 7 months ago

The reasons why it matters and why it doesn't matter cancel themselves out