My current question about black holes is: It is usually reported that the electron is a dimensionless point, with no extent. But it has mass. Why is it not, then, a black hole? A black hole with the mass of an electron would have an event horizon, which is not a dimensionless point. If it is a black hole, how does the charge "get out" to affect the outside world? If a black hole were given a charge, e.g. by injecting…
According to QM. Electrons/positrons aren't a particle but much closer to a probability cloud.
Black holes are fundamentally modified space time. So much, much different than particles.
> A black hole with the mass of an electron would have an event horizon, which is not a dimensionless point. If it is a black hole, how does the charge "get out" to affect the outside world?
Charge is one of few properties that black holes preserve.
> If the electron and positron are both dimensionless points, yet somehow not black holes, how do their paths ever succeed in intersecting?
Same way two clouds interact. No black holes necessary. Analogy isn't perfect. Two interacting clouds don't obliterate instantly to produce different clouds.