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Eric Cornell talking about the matter-antimatter paradox in 2001 (i.imgur.com)
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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can neutrons decay into anti protons?

[–] Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Not sure exactly but neutrons are* a proton and an electron getting intimate with each other so yes? Not decay, what you're describing would be separating DARK MATTER in this stupid unproven head-theory I wrote out.

In the real world only cosmic rays smashing particles in space like nature's particle accelerator can produce anti-protons

*Obviously the star because hadrons are way more complicated than that

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

neutrons are* a proton and an electron getting intimate with each other

No, neutrons are normal particles in their own right, just with net zero charge.