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- noun Plural form of
positron .
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What is known for certain is that our galaxy-and others-are filled with tiny subatomic particles known as positrons, the antimatter counterpart of typical, everyday electrons.
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The anti-matter, also known as positrons, shoots out of the target in a cone-shaped plasma
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The International Linear Collider (ILC) would be a machine up to 31 miles long, comprising two giant "guns" that would accelerate electrons and particles of antimatter called positrons to near-light speeds before smashing them together.
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The anti-matter, also known as positrons, shoots out of the target in a cone-shaped plasma
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The anti-matter, also known as positrons, shoots out of the target in a cone-shaped plasma "jet."
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The International Linear Collider (ILC) would be a machine up to 31 miles long, comprising two giant "guns" that would accelerate electrons and particles of antimatter called positrons to near-light speeds before smashing them together.
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The anti-matter, also known as positrons, shoots out of the target in a cone-shaped plasma
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The anti-matter, also known as positrons, shoots out of the target in a cone-shaped plasma "jet."
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The anti-matter, also known as positrons, shoots out of the target in a cone-shaped plasma 'jet.'
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Against this philosophical debating, hard-core physicists such as Richard Feynman who is represented here not just by a paper on the work for which he received the Nobel Prize but by his science-fiction-like suggestion that the particles known as positrons are electrons traveling backward in time, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Julian Schwinger ignored the philosophy and got on with solving the equations—after they had found the right ones to solve—coming up with a complete, unified description of everything in the universe except gravity.
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