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Originally Posted by JAK Is this "pooling" idea plausible? David, please provide your insight - especially from the perspective of aether.

JAK;
The problem with matter / anti-matter annihilation is that nothing is annihilated. The substance of the particles simply converts the uniform motion of the particles to the chaotic randomized vibrations we call electromagnetic energy or Aether. I don’t view charge as an intrinsic property; I believe it is an interaction of the structured units of matter and the Aether that produce what we observe as a field associated with the particle. Place any charged particle in an absolute void and there would be no charge for there would be no Aether.

If you’ve ever seen a soap bubble with a droplet attached to it, this would approximate the relation between a positron and an electron. The droplet is the positron and the bubble would be the electron. Positive particles have centralized mass whereas a negative particle is more like the bubble with its mass concentrated at the boundary of its field. There’s no real problem with your concept of pooled charges but I really don’t see any advantage of such a concept or any phenomena that it may explain; Do you?