sci.physics.particle

Previously, I had asked about how you could probe whether a sea of
positron/electron pairs existed and why there was no missing
antimatter because the antimatter is bound up in the positron/electron
pairs. Remarks by PD got me to read the one book I had about quarks
"The Hunting of the Quark" by Michael Riordan. In this book, I found
the story of the discovery of the J/psi particle which had to be
either the decay product of a positron and electron or the result of a
collision of positrion and electron. They did the experiment both ways
and came up with a particle that has a mass of about 3.1GeV.

Now, this experiment is interesting to me because by my thinking,
these positron/electron pairs ought to be everywhere. During particle
collisions, these are actually the source of the mass that is
seemingly created during such collisions as they are pulled out of the
aether. Now if you were doing an experiment involving tracing back a
pair of positrons/electrons to its parent source and if these
positrons/electrons exist everywhere, then it directly follows that
you should see a huge spike of detected particles if you were looking
at the exact mass of the aether particle. On either side of the aether
particle mass, you would see nothing.

The discovery of the J/psi particle produced just such an incredible
peak in the data. Like a skyscraper sitting in the middle of a desert,
the experimenters thought there had been an error since they had not
seen anything like it. From the book it appeared this spike was far
larger and narrower than any other particle that had ever been
observed. There was no explanation for why it peaked this way, but if
space is filled with positron/electron pairs, it is this sea of
particles that immediately springs out. The other particles do have to
be produced by a laborious and chance process of creation, whereas the
positrion/electron pairs are there for the taking.

To answer my own original question, this does appear to be a way to
directly verify the existence of a positron/electron aether. It's
existence must have a large impact on the kinds and quantities of
particles that can be knocked out of it. It is critically important
this be an experiment that only involves positrions and electrons
since this would be the only way to discriminate a background positron/
electron field. Now that we know what we are looking for, one could
design experiments to directly confirm or deny the existence of a
positron/electron pair field.

In reading further, it is concluded by conventional science that the J/
Psi is evidence of the charmed quark and its antiparticle. This
appears to be based around the assumption that the J/Psi is composed
of 2 objects orbiting one another like an electron orbiting a proton.
All kinds of impressive predictions were made and confirmed. There was
a prediction of a naked charm particle. Something was found at 1.87
GeV versus a prediction of 1.95GeV - but apparently that was close
enough to close the books on this particle. All very impressive, but
if the assumption was one particle orbiting another, this could also
have easily happened with non-fractional integer charged positrons and
electrons along with all the other impressive predictions. The quark
explaination also does does nothing to explain why the J/Psi peaked in
such an unusual manner. If the J/Psi was just another result of the
same kind of collisions as other particles, there should have been
nothing special about it's peak.

Now if the J/Psi is really due to a brief orbiting of an electron
around a positrion, then the 3.1GeV isn't the mass of the aether
particle, but it is not unreasonable to think that in a sea of highly
energetic positron/electron pairs, that quite a few may become
separated and then would get into this slightly stable orbital pair.
Once again, the electron/positron sea would provide a wealth of
opportunities for these orbital pairs to form. This does leave the
question about positron/electron pairs emanating directly from the
aether with an energy in the 1GeV range (normal energy for positrion/
electron annihilation). I would think the peak here would be
absolutely enormous - but maybe these were tossed out since scientists
knew exactly what these were and ignored them?

So here is a way to experimentally directly confirm the existence of a
positron/electron aether in particle acclerator experiments. All other
aether detection experiments rely on detecting motion through the
aether and if the aether isn't moving, this test isn't going to work
and you can never rule out the existence of the aether based on such
tests. However, this is a direct test of the particles of the aether
and experiment seems to bear out the existence of such an aether with
an unusual spike in the matter spectrum.

-fhuaether