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Question about matter and antimatter?
I read that when both touch each other; both are gone. Do they change? And if why do they "go."?
5 Answers
- Steve4PhysicsLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
They react and produce gamma photons. Try the video in the link for more detail.
Source(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDmfkLYE6eY - TechnobuffLv 77 years ago
Matter and antimatter spontaneously form in a vacuum from pure energy. But they very quickly reunite back into pure energy.
Which only leaves us to wonder where lurks all the antimatter that was formed at Big Bang, and why didn't the matter we know and this antimatter annihalate each other again? Why did they separate?
- JoeLv 77 years ago
It's called "annihilation". The matter and anti-mater are both converted to energy, according to Einstein's famous equation:
E = mc^2
- 7 years ago
Just to add to what Joe said. The units for E=MC^2 are Joules=kg*(meters/sec)^2. Every equation is useless without the correct units.
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- SasLv 77 years ago
when anti-matter and matter collide, they annhialate each other and release pure energy.
