In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 6 Mar 2006 09:45:29 -0800: Hi, [snip] >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 ? [snip] You can, but because of conservation of angular momentum, you get an equal number of positrons. Then the positrons go off on their own, and annihilate an equal number of electrons, so you are back to square 1. Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
