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
