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Antiproton vs Antiphoton - What's the difference?

antiproton | antiphoton |

In physics|lang=en terms the difference between antiproton and antiphoton

is that antiproton is (physics) the antiparticle of the proton, having a negative electric charge while antiphoton is (physics) the antiparticle of a photon (identical to a photon).

As nouns the difference between antiproton and antiphoton

is that antiproton is (physics) the antiparticle of the proton, having a negative electric charge while antiphoton is (physics) the antiparticle of a photon (identical to a photon).

antiproton

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (physics) The antiparticle of the proton, having a negative electric charge.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=(Jeremy Bernstein) , title=A Palette of Particles , volume=100, issue=2, page=146 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton , the quark and the Higgs boson.}}

    antiphoton

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) The antiparticle of a photon (identical to a photon).