Timeline for Where does the kinetic energy of an object annihilated in a matter antimatter reaction go?
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| Apr 21, 2019 at 14:21 | comment | added | Eliot Behr | Initial momentums determine the photons' "explosion" shape. If the matter/antimatter had equal opposite momentums, a spherical explosion of photons works as symmetry allows the momentums of the photons moving in all directions to cancel (top cancels the bottom, left cancels right, etc.) It may also be possible to have a beam if your initial frame didn't have total momentum at zero. If your bullet going right had more momentum than the leftward antimatter, the photons created would have net momentum to the right (a beam maybe). The less photons you create, the more high energy each one is. | |
| Apr 21, 2019 at 13:29 | comment | added | TheDyingOfLight | Thanks. So still a spherical "expolsion" but with higher energy photons and no beam? | |
| Apr 21, 2019 at 12:53 | history | answered | Eliot Behr | CC BY-SA 4.0 |