Robert McNees
Physicist Carl Anderson was born #OTD in 1905.
Anderson developed an improved cloud chamber that he used to identify the positron – the antiparticle of the electron first theorized by Dirac.
Nowadays we use these particles for positron emission tomography (PET), android brains, and ghost busting.
Dr David Mills
@mcnees those are proton packs not positron packs.
Badibulgator
@mcnees Also used as a weapon on planet Transsexual, Transylvania.
Robert McNees
@Dtl it is described as an “positron collider” in the first movie.
Dr David Mills
@mcnees Movie physicists and their messed up terminology!
Robert McNees
@Dtl to be fair, it is a positron collider that produces a stream of protons.
Dr David Mills
@mcnees charge is conserved then, I suppose you could whack them together hard enough to make up the mass difference. Probably lots of other deep particle magic I've long forgotten that would make that reaction messy or impossible.
Damn movie physics. It's all gone wrong and that's before we even get to ghosts!
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