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What happens when a particle an its corresponding particle of antimatter meet?
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If a quark and anti-quark collide, they could scatter. But it is also possible (with increasing probability at lower energies) that they undergo what is called mutual annihilation. In mutual annihilation, both particles are converted entirely into energy.
Quarks, it should be noted, cannot exist by themselves. It should also be noted that there are some particles created by quark-antiquark pairs. These particles, like the J/psi meson, are short-lived, but do exist. Investigators are still working on a better understanding of quarks and the relationship between the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions.
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They would annihilate each other equally. Every electron that encounters a positron (the antimatter equivelant to an electron), every proton that encounters an antiproton and every neutron that encounters an anti-neutron would completely annihilate; both the matter and antimatter particle would fully transform into energy with no residual matter (nor antimatter) if the touch were somehow perfect.The amount of energy produced is enormous for even a small amount of matter/antimatter annihilation. The amount of energy released is dependent on how much matter and antimatter annihilate each other based on Einstein's famouse equation, e = mc2, which means energy (e) is equal to mass (m) times the square of the speed of light (c). Since light is incredibly fast, squaring it is a huge multiplier to mass. Nuclear fission (atomic bombs) and nuclear fusion (hydrogen bombs) generate their energy based on this same formula, but only a relatively small amount of the matter used in fission or fusion is converted into energy. By comparison, all of the matter and antimatter that come into contact will convert into energy, so the power of an explosion resulting from a matter/antimatter annihilation would be many times more energetic than even a hydrogen bomb of similar mass.The largest bomb ever detonated in the history of manking was the Tsar Bomba, a fusion or h-bomb which yielded an explosive force of 50 million tonnes of TNT. The bomb itself weighed 27,000 kilograms.By comparison, if you had a combined total of 27,000 kilograms of matter and antimatter, and created an annihilation bomb (putting all of the matter and antimatter into contact with each other), the resulting explosion would be1,159,920 megatonnes (or 1.15992 teratonnes) or more than twenty-three thousand times as powerful as the Tsar Bomba! This is huge, but wouldn't quite destroy the earth though it could certainly exterminate a lot of life. The "dinosaur killer" asteroid, estimated to have been maybe 15 kilometers across and striking the earth at 20 km/s, was more than four thousand times as powerful as this.
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Our current understanding says that matter-antimatter pairs can be produced by a sufficiently strong energy field, and further says that this is happening all the time. Normally these particles quickly meet up and annihilate each other, but under certain conditions this might not happen, which would leave free antimatter particles running around.
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