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Why do matter and antimatter annihilate? (bigthink.com)

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From forming bound states to normal scattering, many possibilities abound for matter-antimatter interactions. So why do they annihilate? There’s a quantum reason we simply can’t avoid.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I never thought I'd read the words "CP violation" and actually be interested and intrigued instead of disgusted.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Yeah it’s one of those terms that’s unfortunately been co-opted for another definition. Definitely made some of my google searches in grad school feel icky… The physics terminology came first though!