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( , Thu 30 May 2013, 15:27)
Have you got a problem you think the rest of the B3ta collective can solve? Are you an idiot? Tell B3ta and we'll help you out. Probably. BE FLUFFY.
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( , Thu 30 May 2013, 15:27)
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Yes, that's right.
The "up" and "down" quarks have different quantum numbers and won't annihilate. For example, an up quark has a charge of +2/3, and the down quark has a charge of -1/3. If they annihilated, this would violate the law of conservation of electric charge.
An up anti-quark, however, is a different particle from a down quark, and has opposite quantum numbers to an up quark. It will cancel out exactly with an up quark.
So a proton, wwhich is made up of two up quarks and one down quark, is stable. A neutral pion, with a up quark and an anti-up, is unstable and annihilates into two or three photons in the blink of an eye.
( , Mon 3 Jun 2013, 15:53, 1 reply)
The "up" and "down" quarks have different quantum numbers and won't annihilate. For example, an up quark has a charge of +2/3, and the down quark has a charge of -1/3. If they annihilated, this would violate the law of conservation of electric charge.
An up anti-quark, however, is a different particle from a down quark, and has opposite quantum numbers to an up quark. It will cancel out exactly with an up quark.
So a proton, wwhich is made up of two up quarks and one down quark, is stable. A neutral pion, with a up quark and an anti-up, is unstable and annihilates into two or three photons in the blink of an eye.
( , Mon 3 Jun 2013, 15:53, 1 reply)
Ah, thank you Amish Information Systems.
Your sig states that you consist of more down quarks than up quarks, does this mean you are a neutron?
( , Tue 4 Jun 2013, 13:50, closed)
Your sig states that you consist of more down quarks than up quarks, does this mean you are a neutron?
( , Tue 4 Jun 2013, 13:50, closed)
No,
...but since most atoms have more neutrons than protons, I worked out that, overall, the "down" quarks win.
( , Tue 4 Jun 2013, 21:58, closed)
...but since most atoms have more neutrons than protons, I worked out that, overall, the "down" quarks win.
( , Tue 4 Jun 2013, 21:58, closed)
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