According to Hotson, the positrons and electrons are never created nor destroyed. Because they are both fermions, they can never occupy the same space at the same time and so can never annihilate each other. Instead, upon combination, the electron and positron become an "epo" atom with each orbiting the other and become essentially invisible. Hotson envisions that we exist in a sea of epos and that the epo sea is the ether.
The 1.2 MeV doesn't create an electron positron pair, it simply liberates (splits) them from an orbiting epo pair. So, an epo would have 32 MeV (I think) of total energy including its spin. When split, each of the positron and the electron have 16 MeV of energy including the mass energy and spin energy. On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 4:25 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > In reply to Bob Higgins's message of Mon, 6 Jul 2015 14:49:42 -0600: > Hi, > [snip] > >Third, I thought I remember that Hotson said that the true energy of the > electron was more like 16 MeV when its spin energy was considered. If > true, loss of the 0.51 MeV would still be a small fraction of its total > energy. > > You can't have conservation of mass-energy and create both a positron and > an > electron from a 1.2 MeV gamma ray if both particles also need 16 MeV of > spin > energy. > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
