Create Particle: Emerge from Energy or Divide?

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Please forgive a (no nothing) from what i have understood, if enough energy
is poured into the vacuum, a particle can (emerge) is this particle given
existence, or is it drawn across some divide, sorry if this has been done to
death some where before.
 
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Is this question to (stupid) may be some one can tell me where to look for
the obvious ansewer :smile:
 
A pair of particles can appear; you have to obey all conservation laws, so you have to produce particle-antiparticle pairs so as to average out the charge increase to zero. This has been used as a (not exactly right) explanation of Hawking radiation.
 
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A pair of particles can appear; you have to obey all conservation laws, so you have to produce particle-antiparticle pairs so as to average out the charge increase to zero. This has been used as a (not exactly right) explanation of Hawking radiation.
Thanks SA, when you say appear, does that mean they are created?
 
Yeah, but under regular circumstances they must recombine and anihilate within a short period of time.
 
This is a difficult question, as the created particle/antiparticle tends to seek a quick union with each other, therefore both "poofing" out of existence not long after creation.
Of course, NATURE provided some unknown mechanism for particle creation stability during the stages of the "Big Bang" or whatever flavor of creation one ascribes to.
I would venture to guess that during original "creation" that there were much more anihilations than stable "offshoots", but enough "stability" to create what we have now.
 
Google "dirac sea". That should correspond to your "drawn across some divide".
 
Thank you all, i will look up dirac sea.
 
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