>The question in a sense is whether, at the point of destruction of
>matter, the energy released is greater if the matter destroyed has
>been charged.
Whenever I've encountered in my reading of total matter conversion to
pure energy, it's always been in terms of particle-antiparticle pairs
eg electron-positron, proton-antiproton etc These are pairs of
particles that are identical in every way, except that they have
opposite charges.
So, on that basis matter particles *have* to be charged in order to be
destroyed - matter destruction of uncharged matter is a non sequitor.
I don't think there is such a thing as neutron-antineutron annilation,
is there?
It's intriguing how this seemingly innocuous property of charge is
fundamental to matter. If viewed from a string theory perspective, a
particle-antiparticle annilation would perhaps be like superimposing
two loops of vibrating energy where the troughs of one waveform match
up with the crests of the other waveform ----> flattened out vibration
----> pure energy ???
Just conjecturing wildly here.....
Gareth
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