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Name: Peter
Status: student
Age: 20s
Location: N/A
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Date: 1999
Question:
In a matter/anti-matter collision is the resulting annihilation in the form of a violent reaction or not?

Replies:
In the case of an electron and a positron annihilating, the two particles simply disappear and are replaced by two very energetic photons. I don't know whether or not that's violent.

Tim Mooney


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