Elektronen en positronen annihileren en produceren g-straling (energie)
E = mc2
Energie en
materie zijn equivalent
Energie kan naar
materie getransformeerd worden en vica versa.
The
simplest way to describe antimatter is in terms of its behaviour - when
particle and antiparticle meet they annihilate and their mass is turned into
energy in the form of g-rays, also called photons.
This
process is governed by the second and last equation you will see this
evening, and surely known to the whole audience - Einstein’s famous equation
E=mc2.
Not only
is this true for electrons and positrons, it also occurs for quarks and
anti-quarks and more complicated objects like protons and anti-protons. You
would also be in trouble if you met your anti-you.
However
this possibility is still someway off; it was not until 1996 that
anti-hydrogen, the simplest anti-atom was produced.