I want to understand it but everything I read about it oscillates impossibly between vulgar metals -> gold and some kind of spiritual transformation metaphysical stuff
What is it and what can be legit gleaned from it in an empirical or useful sense?
Does it have utility outside of use as a metaphor or allegory or whatever?
But to emit positrons, there must be at least one atom to bear it so it has a host to orbit, no?
Yup, there has to be a potassium atom for the positron to be emitted by.
I mean to be carried. Electrons and positrons orbit atoms. When lightning strikes, it’s a stream of electrons flowing through the atoms. Antimatter cannot come into contact with matter.