a particle that has the same mass as another particle but has opposite values for its other properties; interaction of a particle and its antiparticle results in annihilation and the production of radiant energy
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antiparticle
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Editorial note
> For a particle to be its own antiparticle, it would have to have spin 1/2This is wrong.
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Quick take
a particle that has the same mass as another particle but has opposite values for its other properties; interaction of a particle and its antiparticle results in annihilation and the production of radiant energy
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Definitions
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noun
a particle that has the same mass as another particle but has opposite values for its other properties; interaction of a particle and its antiparticle results in annihilation and the production of radiant energy
Example sentences
> For a particle to be its own antiparticle, it would have to have spin 1/2This is wrong.
The W+/W- have spin 1 and are eachother's antiparticle.
How then would antimatter fall upwards ~because~ it is the antiparticle of matter?
Which is why using the vacuum fluctuations makes sense – these are particle/antiparticle pairs created randomly in the vacuum.
Since a photon is its own antiparticle, you might imagine that a photon and an electron "bounce" off of each other in time, and both reverse their directions.
My question here is, wouldn't the particle/antiparticles that get split happen in equal amounts for a net zero radiative effect?
Basically a pair of particle/antiparticle randomly appears near the black hole event horizon, one of the particle falls into the black hole while the other one escapes.
This photon then randomly hits a particle X of a particle-antiparticle pair and transfers its momentum/energy to the particle X, creating/altering it into a particle X'.
In 1928 Paul Dirac formulated a relativistic quantum theory for the electron and realized that this theory predicted an antiparticle, the positron, and four years later it was actually discovered.
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How do you use antiparticle in a sentence?
> For a particle to be its own antiparticle, it would have to have spin 1/2This is wrong.
What does antiparticle mean?
a particle that has the same mass as another particle but has opposite values for its other properties; interaction of a particle and its antiparticle results in annihilation and the production of radiant energy
What part of speech is antiparticle?
antiparticle is commonly used as noun.