tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35187314.post116059527051848112..comments2007-02-09T16:00:44.630-05:00Buzz Skylinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04255849304022062681BuzzSkyline@gmail.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35187314.post-1161031955307245692006-10-16T16:52:00.000-04:002006-10-16T16:52:00.000-04:002006-10-16T16:52:00.000-04:00I know. It's weird that protonium sticks around at all.<BR/><BR/>If you check out positronium on Wikipedia you'll see that an electron and an anti-electron (positron) can also hook up for a while before they anihiliate.<BR/><BR/>The following is a flawed sort of analogy (because it's based on an old-fashioned picture of particle motion), but the two particles don't anihilate so long as they orbit each other. If the moon were made out of antimatter it wouldn't be a problem provided it stayed up there in orbit.<BR/><BR/>Quantum mechanically, I believe, you would say that so long as their wave functions don't overlap much, the chances of the proton and antiproton anihilating each other is small. <BR/><BR/>Even so, the protonium molecule does go boom in about a thousandth of a second. <BR/><BR/>But that is still a relatively long time. If they weren't in orbit around each other, they would only last a trillionth of a second before they went pop.BuzzSkylinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04255849304022062681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35187314.post-1161015687848235502006-10-16T12:21:00.000-04:002006-10-16T12:21:00.000-04:002006-10-16T12:21:00.000-04:00How is it possible to create a molecule consisting of both matter and antimatter? What wikipedia says is that interaction of particle and antiparticle results in a big boom. That made me wonder :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35187314.post-1160991652349104442006-10-16T05:40:00.000-04:002006-10-16T05:40:00.000-04:002006-10-16T05:40:00.000-04:00true thatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35187314.post-1160956965227664472006-10-15T20:02:00.000-04:002006-10-15T20:02:00.000-04:002006-10-15T20:02:00.000-04:00It's called dylithium!!! :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com