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> >Before P-E pairs pop into existence, they are nonexistent; it is as
> >simple as that.
> >
> Are P-E pairs potentially existent if not actually existent? From
> where does the positron stem or in other words, what state of affairs
> results in the production of a positive electron? What happens when
> said positive electron encounters a negative electron? Is it like the
> battle of the two Captain Kirks?
>
You are asking for the positron's cause, what causes the P-E pair
to appear from the nonexistential void, and this is exactly what
physics has been unable to find. They seem to appear in and
diverge from a common point, and then arc back together and
disappear when they meet. One can, however, draw the electron
away, and it does not disappear, and the positron can have another
electron directed to it, and THEY will unite, cancel out, and
disappear. Since they are generic opposites, it does not matter
WHICH positron meets WHICH electron; their mutual annihilation
does not violate the law of mass-energy conversion any more than
the appearance of a pair (one never appears without it's correlative
opposite).
>
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