Re: Mass from the vacuum?

From: Old Man (nomail_at_nomail.net)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 23:29:48 -0500

"Patrick Powers" <frisbieinstein@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9511688f.0406081706.1dd2dbf2@posting.google.com...
> I'm told that the vacuum occasionally produces electron-positron pairs
> that usually are shortlived.
>
> I'm also told that shortly after the Big Bang the stuff split into
> matter and antimatter. 99.9999% mutually anihilated, but .0001% did
> not due to a slight asymmetry.
>
> So, does the electron-positron reaction have this same asymmetry?

The given asymmetry is a "just so" estimation. It's to small
to be measured with current techniques. [Old Man]