Re:The Positive Electron (1933)
by jessriedel on Saturday February 04, 2017 @03:38PM
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Yea. Positive and negative muons and pions were found after WWII. The anti-proton wasn't discovered until 1955 following the construction of the Bevatron, an accelerator powerful enough to reach the proton/anti-proton rest mass of ~1 GeV (i.e., a Billion eV).
There are positrons passing through the room you are in right now...
Re:The Positive Electron (1933)
by winter_blue on Saturday February 04, 2017 @04:49PM
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Anti-particles and particles instantly annihilate each other on contact, so anti-particles cannot not exist in our world besides for brief moments.
There's a theory that half of the universe is made of anti-particles (and the other half composed of regular particles). So you could say that the half we inhibit has few anti-particles in it.
Re:The Positive Electron (1933)
by averagewall on Saturday February 04, 2017 @06:35PM
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They're also created all the time by radioactive decay which happens in common building materials. So yes, they'll be flying around your room now, but not going much further than that.
Some of us occasionally do go outside
Re:The Positive Electron (1933)
by Dylan16807 on Saturday February 04, 2017 @05:28PM
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If you're taking that as an insult, I think implying that you use HN outdoors just makes it worse.
https://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/anderson.html
The positive electron (positron) appears to have been the first anti-particle identified.