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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
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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
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However, the one approved for construction in 1981 was an electron-positron collider.
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Then again, this is for an electron-positron collider everyone seems to think the background there will be negligible.
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Our vacuum is teeming with virtual electron-positron pairs
Dawkins and ID 2008
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Our vacuum is teeming with virtual electron-positron pairs kornbelt888: Irrelevant.
Dawkins and ID 2008
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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
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The "nothing" that FMM meant in his original post does not contain virtual electron-positron pairs.
Dawkins and ID 2008
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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
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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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