Annihilation

Annihilation is the process by which a particle and its antiparticle meet and mutually annihilate each other, converting the entire mass into energy. According to the German physicist Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955), the following relation holds:

E = m c²

Here, m is the mass and c is the speed of light.

Related concepts

• antimatter
• base units
• energy (mass)
• mass
• matter
• mole
• pair production
• volume