Antimatter

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Every type of a material particle has a corresponding antiparticle type, which differs only in the electric charge sign.

The annihilation is the mutual destruction of the corresponding particles of matter and antimatter, which produces the photons. The reason is that the oppositely charged particles are easily intersecting each other, neutralizing the electric charge over their volume, and violating the stability conditions of a vortex. If the particles are different in mass (e.g., the electron and the proton), then only the external electric field is neutralized, and the central bulk remains charged and stable. Because of this, the natural antimatter is not spread in large quantities.

The positron is an antiparticle of the electron. The pair production occurs during the passage of a sufficiently high energy photon through an electrostatic field. This field provides the spontaneous turbulence of a photon, which shapes two vortices with the opposite angular momenta (according to the law of conservation of momentum) and the equal magnetic moments. The produced particles acquire the opposite charges. The external electrostatic field throws them apart, preventing the immediate annihilation.


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