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The Original Discovery

The Original Discovery

Perepelitsa and his colleagues are dubious that a massless photon could pack a powerful enough punch to melt part of a lead nucleus, which contains 82 protons and 126 neutrons. “It would be like throwing a needle into a bowling ball,” he says.

Instead, he thinks that just before impact, these photons are undergoing a transformation predicted by Paul Dirac.

In 1931, Dirac published a paper predicting a new type of particle. The particle would share the mass of the electron but have the opposite charge. If it collides with an electron, the two will have a chance of annihilating one another.

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