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Someone out there must be able to answer this (I'm thinking Darlek Dave might have a stab) I'm a bit puzzled by the difference between a Positron & a Proton, they both have a charge +1, does a Positron contain a Proton and something else (such as a neutron) or is it a Proton that has simply left the nucleus  sorry...
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Positrons are antimatter electrons; protons are normal matter positively charged particles.
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Ahh...that helps believe it or not (returns to the Feynman Lectures)
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Look at it this way:
A positron is the same size and mass as an electron, but made of antimatter, so if it comes into contact with an electron, they cancel each other out, and are annihilated (they both cease to exist, with a bit of a bang).
A proton is way, way bigger and more massive than an electron, but has a positive charge that is equal and opposite to the negative charge of an electron (give or take), so if you put a proton and electron together, the electrical charge cancels out, but neither particle is changed.
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Hmmm, this is another example of why I would like to study a bit more physics (I left it after A-Level did a bit the first year of my Degree and none since) I have started to read the Feynman Lectures more due to fact he was (to quote my old physics teacher) "A bongo, playing s*x maniac who invented the A-bomb"... 
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It all makes sense, but initially seeing that sense can be tricky.
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Yeah... tell me about it 
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The trouble is that the user guide for the universe is written by people who know a lot of crucial details that they neglect to put in -- pretty much like the average software user guide.
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mind you at times the user doesn't always need detail...can lead them to break things!! 
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Mark_Wallace wrote: with a bit of a bang
electron+positron -> *here is where the magic happens* -> nothing
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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The beginning and the middle had me really interested, but do all your stories have such crappy endings?
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This is why I never went on with quantum physics... the ending is often disappointing.
Want to see something ? It is not there anymore !
Want to measure how fast something goes ? You must first forget where it is !
Things you want to observe must first be crashed together several times at very high speed.
Etc..
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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The positron, (for there may be only one) is the positively charged version of the electron.
Neither of actually exist, they are merely quantum possibilities.
The proton, on the other hand, does exist, it is a collection of quarks.
You are comparing lemons and elephants, except that in this case the lemon is only an imaginary fruit.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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HooKay, Positrons are antimatter-electrons.  But according to what I was reading (Feynman Lectures Vol 1) he hadn't mentioned antimatter as yet I think I need to get back to physics properly....
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glennPattonWork wrote: I think I need to get back to physics drinking properly....
ftfy
speramus in juniperus
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too elephanting right 
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Apologies I misspelt your name (stuck an 'r' in...)
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Positrons are as simple to understand as electrons.
Protons are baryons and as such don't make any sense.
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Baryons? I'm afraid to ask...
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Particles made out of three quarks.
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So applying my Engineering brain a quark is a third of a charge (which every way it points, up, down or I hope I'm joking in, out)...
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Close enough. +2/3 or -1/3.
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and now a darkened room to think, darn at work, well I will do that later then!
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