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When Energy is converted to matter, we know equal amounts of matter and antimatter are produced. What happens when matter and antimatter combine?

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When matter and antimatter combine they produce two gamma rays with energy equal to their mass.enter image description here

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  • $\begingroup$ What property causes them to anihilate? Lets say a a quark and a anti quark colide, they anihilate due to some "Dirac vacuum" effect? Or is it solely due to spin/charge simmetry? $\endgroup$
    – Andre Maizel
    Commented Aug 5, 2015 at 4:08

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