Jones asks.
>
> IOW ... the electron were "just" a trapped photon equivalent,
> then why wouldn't we be able to tune an x-ray device (say a small fission reactor)
> into an electron "factory" by filtering and downshifting the higher energy gammas ?
>
The Compton Effect on gammas in fission reactors does that for you, probably
produces lots of Ps- and possibly (*e-) too.
Fred
