Apparently the name for an anti-electron is a positron. What are the names for anti-protons and anti-neutrons, if any?
[sub]And because I’m curious and don’t feel like opening two threads in the same five minutes - I remember hearing about an ancient Greek tombstone, or at any rate a piece of wood with writing on it about a dead person, that bore the inscription “I am dead. Notice.” It was two words, and the first one was “Thanatos.” What was the second likely to have been?[/sub]
Good guess! They’re called antiprotons and antineutrons.
-Tofer
I’m pretty sure the electron is the only particle whos anti-particle counterpart has a different name. Something exotic might be an exception. The anti-proton and anti-neutron are called simply that. Some particles, like the photon, are their own anti-particle and so aren’t called anti-X, just X.
Aha.
And thanks, Tofer, although I wasn’t guessing.
FWIW, the antipartle of the photon has identical to the photon, i.e. a photon and an antiphoton are the same thing!
FWIW, the antipartle of the photon has identical **properties ** to the photon, i.e. a photon and an antiphoton are the same thing!