Alright so in case that was too fast for you there was a helium atom and its antiparticle, they collided and annihilated, the photons then went everywhere Annihilation is a process where a particle and its antiparticle, such as matter and antimatter, collide and destroy each other in a powerful release of energy, and photons are "created" (I say this because energy cannot be created or destroyed, so they are not really being created) and released Yes this is real My representation may have been a bit off how it would actually look but you get the point, its at an atomic level anyway so if there was only one particle and one antiparticle you would probably only see the photons in the form of light my drawn representations of the particles are not exactly realistic but whatever to learn more, you can read the book or any book about the topic really, or look up "annihilation antimatter" or a related search I guess but the 'antimatter' part is IMPORTANT because there is apparently a movie called Annihilation and that is not what you're looking for
Smooth glide from @potatobear616 Outro music is EnV - Pneumatic Tokyo (cropped) everything else by me Why did I made this, you ask? Well, I was reading about astrophysics and this was in the book, so I decided to try and animate a simulation of it for no particular reason (except I had no ideas for an animation) oh yeah and also the book was Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neal DeGrasse Tyson It is actually a good book if you like that kind of stuff even though it might sound boring to you Key: green with + is proton gray is neutron purple with - is electron red with + is positron (anti-electron) teal with - is antiproton pink is antineutron yellow oval thing is photon (NOT proton there's a difference look it up bc I'm too lazy to put it here)
