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"Sally" wrote in message...
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. . .
...just maybe...a positron is an area of space that
is lacking an electron. I think that Richard Feymann was thinking along
similar lines with his concept of virtual particles. Stephen Hawking
suggested that, near a black hole event horizon, anti-particles would be
generated from nothingness when their quantum entangled virtual twins
disappear into the singularity. Hence black holes will radiate Hawking
radiation. . . .

Sally

'Lo Sally --

I've been studying this and would like to hear more about it...

I'm familiar with the electron/hole theory in electronics as it
applies to P and N semiconductor materials used in diodes
and transistors...

primary current carriers in N-type materials are electrons,
primary current carriers in P-type materials are holes.

... but i can't quite marry your above statement about positrons
being areas of space (holes) that are lacking electrons with
the first discovery of the antielectron or positron in the cloud
chamber. That was actually a *particle* that had the exact
same mass as an electron, but moved in a curve that was just
the *opposite* direction that an electron would have moved in
the chamber's magnetic field.

So the question arises, how would an electron-less area of
space be able to leave the bubble track that is left by a positron
when it is created in a cloud chamber?

I think Sally is describing Dirac's original theory about anti-matter. I
don't have a good reference to hand (searching for "Dirac" and
"positron" will probably tell you a lot more) but AIUI a positron is a
"hole" in a sea of particles with negative energy.

--
"Forty millions of miles it was from us, more than forty millions of miles of
void"
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