Similar behavior between anti-particles and waves?

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when antiparticles meet then they destroy each other... It sounds like how waves act when opposite waves pass over one another and you have destructive interference, is there any correlation?
 

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Just a note: you uploaded your profile rather than a diagram.

But the short answer is NO, there really is no particular connection. You might recall that when a particle and antiparticle annihilate, there are tangible by-products due to conservation of mass/momentum, charge, spin, etc.
 
It's just kind of interesting that these 2 things seem to be complementary in nature and have this net effect thing happen where they level each other out to nothing. Unless it were significant enough to talk about the byproducts as you said showing that they aren't merely opposites canceling each other out