> This sounds reasonable, but quite unstable; the positronium will radiate
> away its angular momentum and slowly spiral into anihilation in this
> scenario, unless it could in some way be refreshed.
Not quite. Positronium is quantized just like a hydrogen atom is; the
electron
and positron's wave functions overlap and it vanishes as a pair of .511
MEV gamma
rays. I don't recall the lifetime, something like a few microseconds.
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