[RFC][Info] Playing with Boom-Boom (Or, Antimatter and You - A Children's Parable)

[Labster]

Well, if you look at one definition, gamma radiation is caused by nuclear decay. And matter-antimatter reactions are a form of nuclear decay. I mean, really, gamma rays are produced by the few MeV of mass lost from converting a proton to a neutron. Like, what if you convert the whole thing?

But really, what you hit will get very very hot, and so as just ordinary blackbody radiation, it will also produce X-rays, ultraviolet, light, infrared, microwaves, and radio waves.

The discussion is somewhat academic, though. There's no clearly defined boundary between X-rays and gamma rays, and both of them are harmful to your health in sufficient quantity, as they have a tendency to ionize random molecules of the human body. Antioxidants do help, but cancer is all about breakage in just the wrong spot.