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About Those Anti-particles...
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics Posted by Grayden on August 21, 2001 19:57:32 UTC |
It seems to me that the entire set of theories regarding anti-particles is a bit slip-shod. Though they have been created (briefly) in the labs, physicists don't seem to know much about them. They claim that each particle's associated anti-particle has exactly inverse properties. However, I'm a bit unclear as to whether or not ALL of a particle's properties are involved in this. For protons and electrons, physicists state that the anti particles have opposite charges thus effectively creating small protons and large electrons (true?). Yet with neutrons charge is irrelevant so a reversed magnetic field is substituted. My confusion lies in whether or not anti-protons and anti-electrons also have reversed magnetic fields or if an opposite charge and equal mass are sufficient to classify them as anti-particles.
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