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  • The brain scanning procedure known as PET Positron Emission Tomography exploits the electron-positron annihilation to reveal the workings of the brain.

    Santhosh Mathew, PhD: Seeking the Lost Seeds of Big Bang PhD Santhosh Mathew 2011

  • The brain scanning procedure known as PET Positron Emission Tomography exploits the electron-positron annihilation to reveal the workings of the brain.

    Santhosh Mathew, PhD: Seeking the Lost Seeds of Big Bang PhD Santhosh Mathew 2011

  • However, the one approved for construction in 1981 was an electron-positron collider.

    Makoto Kobayashi - Autobiography 2009

  • Then again, this is for an electron-positron collider everyone seems to think the background there will be negligible.

    Particle Flow Calorimetry « Imaginary Potential 2008

  • Our vacuum is teeming with virtual electron-positron pairs

    Dawkins and ID 2008

  • Our vacuum is teeming with virtual electron-positron pairs kornbelt888: Irrelevant.

    Dawkins and ID 2008

  • Our vacuum is teeming with virtual electron-positron pairs that come out for a brief moment (a billionth of a billionth of a second) and disappear into the vacuum again.

    Dawkins and ID 2008

  • The "nothing" that FMM meant in his original post does not contain virtual electron-positron pairs.

    Dawkins and ID 2008

  • The right diagram is even stranger: the virtual photon spontaneously turns into an electron-positron pair,† which then mutually annihilate, turning back into a photon, which gets reabsorbed.

    How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009

  • A virtual electron-positron pair lasts something like 10-21 seconds before it disappears.

    How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009

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