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Re:Physicists Just Generated a Particle That Acts as Its Own... by CurtMonash on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:57AM (#14839539)
I guess it would be tough to keep these around in any substantial quantity.
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Re:Physicists Just Generated a Particle That Acts as Its Own... by thaumasiotes on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:01PM (#14839570)
It's not usually a problem to have a large number of photons?
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Re:Physicists Just Generated a Particle That Acts as Its Own... by adrusi on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:36PM (#14839902)
Which are different because the result of a particle/antiparticle collision is the emission of photons so the quantity of photons is not changed by collisions.
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Re:Physicists Just Generated a Particle That Acts as Its Own... by m3kw9 on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:10PM (#14839660)
Unless it can only become one of the properties at one time
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