schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to xkcd@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWhat if everything was antimatter EXCEPT Earth?www.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up179
arrow-up179external-linkWhat if everything was antimatter EXCEPT Earth?www.youtube.comschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to xkcd@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squarecron@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoThe video doesn’t mention the sun. Could an antimatter sun shine?
minus-squarerockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 months agoIn fact, yes. Photons don’t have a charge, so anti-photons would illuminate the Earth all the same. The issue, as the video points out, will come from too much energy hitting the Earth’s surface, not too little.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoin fact so far as i can tell, there wouldn’t be anti-photons, they’d just be normal photons
minus-squarerockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoYep, anti-photons are just photons. They are their own counterpart.
minus-squaretrashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoEVIL antimatter sun that STEALS your light and heat
The video doesn’t mention the sun. Could an antimatter sun shine?
In fact, yes. Photons don’t have a charge, so anti-photons would illuminate the Earth all the same. The issue, as the video points out, will come from too much energy hitting the Earth’s surface, not too little.
in fact so far as i can tell, there wouldn’t be anti-photons, they’d just be normal photons
Yep, anti-photons are just photons. They are their own counterpart.
EVIL antimatter sun that STEALS your light and heat