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:It might depend on the kind of physicist; one who deals with semiconductors wouldn't use "electron hole" to refer to positrons. It's pretty clear that the beam in the cartoon is ''not'' a stream of positrons, which would be reacting with the electrons in the air and releasing high-energy photons. It's the difference between "fantastic behaviour of a thing that doesn't really exist" and "behaviour that violates the known properties of a thing that does exist". Perhaps the ST:TNG Enterprise needs to be swept periodically to remove all of the lowadekions it's picked up, fine, but it's a ''bad'' thing to take away all of the baryons. [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 01:06, 22 August 2023 (UTC) | :It might depend on the kind of physicist; one who deals with semiconductors wouldn't use "electron hole" to refer to positrons. It's pretty clear that the beam in the cartoon is ''not'' a stream of positrons, which would be reacting with the electrons in the air and releasing high-energy photons. It's the difference between "fantastic behaviour of a thing that doesn't really exist" and "behaviour that violates the known properties of a thing that does exist". Perhaps the ST:TNG Enterprise needs to be swept periodically to remove all of the lowadekions it's picked up, fine, but it's a ''bad'' thing to take away all of the baryons. [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 01:06, 22 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
: *"an electron hole is indistinguishable from a positron"* - oh, an electron hole is very, very distinguishable from a positron. They hold the same charge, so they are the same in that respect, but otherwise they have quite a lot of different characteristics. For one thing a positron has mass whereas an electron hole, not so much. | : *"an electron hole is indistinguishable from a positron"* - oh, an electron hole is very, very distinguishable from a positron. They hold the same charge, so they are the same in that respect, but otherwise they have quite a lot of different characteristics. For one thing a positron has mass whereas an electron hole, not so much. | ||
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:If you shot out a beam of electron holes (however you are planning to manage that) and then followed it up by shooting a beam of positrons, I very well guarantee that you are going to be able to tell that the two are vastly different things. You might not even need any special equipment to do so . . . [[Special:Contributions/162.158.174.196|162.158.174.196]] 18:16, 22 August 2023 (UTC) | :If you shot out a beam of electron holes (however you are planning to manage that) and then followed it up by shooting a beam of positrons, I very well guarantee that you are going to be able to tell that the two are vastly different things. You might not even need any special equipment to do so . . . [[Special:Contributions/162.158.174.196|162.158.174.196]] 18:16, 22 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
