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Figure 5: The world lines of an electron (moving forward in time) and a positron (moving backward in time) that annihilate into two photons (see text). electrons and positrons in a bubble chamber proton-antiproton collision
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Also Known As anti-electron • positive electron • antielectron

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Figure 5: The world lines of an electron (moving forward in time) and a positron (moving backward in time) that annihilate into two photons (see text).
electrons and positrons in a bubble chamber
proton-antiproton collision
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P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
Carl David Anderson
Carl David Anderson
American physicist