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RE: When Elena met Isolde, aka the antimatter CERN tour on the back of a puma

in #steemstem7 years ago

Thanks for clearing that up! I think it makes sense... though I'm surprised there's no anti-elecromagnetism... the logic in my first-year-uni-physics mind goes as follows (and is probably very incorrect).

  • The flow of electrons is what makes electricity
  • ... and the flow of electricity is what produces magnetic fields
  • .... then the flow of the anti-matter equivelent of an electron (a positron?) should produce an anti-magnetic field....

Though now I break it down like that... perhaps the production of a magnetic field depends only on the movement of a charge, and therfor the flow of a positron in direction a would simple produce the opposite magnetic field as the flow of an electron in direction a... am I close here?

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At the end of the comment, you are right.

Maxwell equations (electromagnetism) depend on the charge of the (anti)particle. Therefore, the same equations are used regardless of the matter/antimatter nature of the particle. In some equation, you will have a +e and in other a -e, that's it. Magnetism stays the same (the same laws are used). From the same laws, we will derive the magnetic field (and its direction will be different).