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Since it focuses on electrical charge, would it be worth renaming it to Anti-charged-matter Are there other types of Antimatter that focus on different propert
by sycren 3y ago
Since it focuses on electrical charge, would it be worth renaming it to Anti-charged-matter
Are there other types of Antimatter that focus on different properties?
- mayoff 3y agoAntimatter also has anti-color-charge. Quarks have a ‘color charge’ (unrelated to visible colors) which is ‘red’, ‘green’, or ‘blue’. An antiquark is antired, antigreen, or antiblue (and has the opposite electrical charge from its corresponding normal quark). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_charge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_charge
- phkahler 3y agoCould anti-quarks behavior be explained by them having negative mass instead?
- monocasa 3y agoI don't believe so; color charge isn't a scalar like mass is.
- KMag 3y agoThat would require a re-formulation of conservation of color charge. You could probably come up with an alternative formulation where everything is consistent, but all of the formulas would almost certainly be more complicated. The most obvious way would end up replacing color by the sign of mass times color everywhere, but then you've just renamed ant-red, anti-blue, and anti-green, with no obvious benefit.