Abstract
In this resource article, an exceptional bubble chamber picture - showing the annihilation of a positron (antielectron e+) in flight - is discussed in detail. Several other esoteric phenomena (some not easy to show on their own!) also manifest themselves in this picture - pair creation or the materialization of a high energy photon into an electron-positron pair; the `head-on' collision of a positron with an electron, from which the mass of the positron can be estimated; the Compton Effect; an example of the emission of electromagnetic radiation (photons) by accelerating charges (bremsstrahlung).
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