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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait, I'm lost. What does it have to do with the amount of protons?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Positrons are different from protons. Both have a positive charge, but a positron is an elementary particle of a similar mass as an electron. They are rather rare in nature which OP was noting. Protons are made of three elementary particles, much heavier than positrons, and are, I imagine, present in nature in about the same order of magnitude as electrons.