What is Positron?

Positron is an antimatter equivalent of the electron. Like the electron, the turn is rotating ½ and extremely low weight (about 1/1836 proton). The only differences are his charge, which is more positive than the negative (hence the name), and its prevalence in space, which is much lower than the prevalus of electrons. Since it is antimatter, if the positron comes into contact with conventional matter, it explodes in the shower of pure energy and bombed everything near gamma rays. They can connect together with anti -dicks and antineutrons to produce anti -atoms and antimolecules, although only the simplest of them are ever observed. Positrons exist in low density throughout the space medium and even designed techniques of antimatter harvests to use their energy. Slavic physicist Paul Dirac in 1930 and discovered only two years later, in 1932, in an experiment with particle accelerator. Because they are small and respond to magnetic fields, posiritrons are equally susceptible to use in experiments with aParticular pcecelars as electrons.

Today, positives are most commonly used in positron emission tomography, where a small amount of radioisotope with a short half -life is injicated into the patient and after a small waiting time the radioisotope concentrates in the tissues and begins to decompose and relaxes. These positrons travel a few millimeters in the body before they collide with the electron and release gamma rays that can be picked up by the scanner. This is used for various diagnostic purposes, to study the brain or monitor the movement of the drug throughout the body.

Futuristic proposed applications include antimatter and energy production. However, both applications are not particularly likely to be widely used, because of their indiscriminate effect in the war - modern warfare is more about accuracy - and radioactive emissions similar to nuclear bombs. If extremely effective means for harvesting poses are not developedITRONs from space, it is unlikely that they would not be used for energy because they require almost as much energy as they would be extracted from the destruction of conventional matter.