TB > However, the first one: why can't virtual pairs be separated
by and electric field?
The average lifetime in our 3-space is way too short, normally.
I can get you the average lifetime numbers if you want (in a file
somewhere). This has been well-studied.
The reason that the electric-field (i.e. the charge) of a "bare
proton" may be able to accomplish this QM feat - is... that the
proton because of its Fermi-scale dimension, is the only common
particle which will "arguably" exist in, or can oscillate
periodically into, the same 1-space (Dirac's reciprocal space) -
in which the epo field (virtual Ps) resides.
That would be my alternative "take" on the most likely ZPE
coherence mechanism - involving the bare proton (at low kinetic
energy) as the operative mechanism for biasing the virtual pair -
which still would not annihilate. However, there is enough
Heisenberg uncertainty in time frame (for the ionization binding
energy of the Ps), such that this energy (which is 6.8 eV or a
pair of 3.4 eV UV photons) could be left over in our 3-space as a
result of a low kinetic-energy bare proton being kept bare for
long enough. If the proton is accelerated, this cannot happen in
terms of high probability - it must have low kinetic energy.
