(November 29, 2015 at 11:50 am)Quantum Wrote:(November 29, 2015 at 11:46 am)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: They don't? I'm no physicist, and maybe I'm misunderstanding the process. What I'm talking about is discussed in Kraus' s A Universe From Nothing, If I'm not mistaken.
No. For example, an Electron and its antiparticle, a Positron, each have, via their mass, a rest energy of 511 keV. If they meet, they annihilate and the result of this process is two photons with 511 keV each. Energy is not lost.
When Protons and Antiprotons, Neutrons and Antineutrons meet as would be the case with proper Antimatter, much of their rest energy goes into Neutrinos as well, not just photons. This is discussed by the CERN website they created in the wake of the Dan Brown movie "Angels and Demons."
Photons have zero values for most conserved traits, though (charge, mass, etc.). When they're talking about "nothing," in this sense, I get the idea that they mean something that is physically close to nothing, maybe with a few photons whizzing around in it or something. Again, I'm a laymen, not a sophisticated physicist, and I've only been exposed to summaries of this idea.
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
