On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Joseph S. Barrera III <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 5/3/2013 1:00 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: > >> The positron resides inside the neutron. There is no reason for the >> positron to leave the neutron as long it is has no association with >> other particles. >> > > The positron will be subject to EM forces that the neutron is not. > The neutron will be subject to residual strong forces that the positron is > not. > If there is no force keeping them together, they will over time drift > apart. > It's not like the neutron has "walls" that can keep the positron in. > > Quarks stay inside a nucleon not because there are "walls" but because of > the strong force (which gets stronger as the quarks move further away from > each other). > > - Joe > > Since I am not working within the standard model the strong force and the weak force are not present. Instead one could imagine a novel force between the positron and the neutron. * represents a positron (( )) represents a neutron ((*)) represents a proton If a positron is appropriately stimulated to leave a neutron this creates a hole in the neutron. The hole would tend to attract other positrons already located inside neutrons. Viewed from the outside this results in a cold fusion between a neutron and proton. (The acceleration that results from attraction warms the environment). In hot fusion, tremendous force must be used to bring two protons together, and they won't stay together as long the positrons remain. The energy required to get a positron to leave a neutron is less than the energy required to force two protons together. It is also known that a free neutron decays into a electron and a proton and a neutrino. Does this mean a (()) is comprised of an actual proton and an actual electron? Not necessarily. It might be sufficient to say the (()) has the potential to transform into a proton and electron. The reason I say this is because it is difficult to imagine how a positron and an electron could survive in such close proximity without annihilating each other. Harry Harry
