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absorbed alpha particle angular momentum antimatter antineutrino antiparticle antiproton atomic nucleus atomic number atomic weight atomic weight scale baryon number beta particles billiard ball billion break breakdown carrying a positive centimeters chemical reactions cm/sec conservation laws conservation of electric conservation of energy consider converted detected Earth Einstein's elec electric charge electron family number electron-volts emission emitted equal equivalent ergs exchange particle existence gamma rays gamma-ray photons grams gravitational half-life helium hydrogen nuclei hydrogen-1 instance involved isotopes kinetic energy law of conservation lepton number less massive mass number massless matter measure mentum meson motion moving mu-meson muon muon family number negative muon negatively charged nuclear field nuclear reactions nucleons ordinary physicists pi-meson pion positron possess produced proton proton and electron quantity radiation radioactive rest-mass spin of ½ star subatomic particles Sun's Suppose theory tiny tion trons uncharged universe uranium velocity of light wavelength zero