Question: Conservation rules rule out certain decays. (a) Which conservation rule explains why a single electron cannot decay into a pair of photons? (b) Which conservation

Conservation rules rule out certain decays. 

(a) Which conservation rule explains why a single electron cannot decay into a pair of photons? 

(b) Which conservation rule explains why a single electron cannot decay into a pair of neutrinos?

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