Question #92420
1 Answer
May 4, 2017
The simple answer is no; however, the more complete answer is that net charge is always conserved
Explanation:
In all the usual processes that we think of, chemical reactions, electrical circuits, natural phenomenon like lightning, charge is neither created nor destroyed.
There are special circumstances, often created in high-energy physics experiments, like in particle colliders like in CERN , where particles are created and destroyed. When this happens, the net charge is always conserved. For instance, if an electron is created in the process, there is also a positron which has the opposite charge bringing the total charge created to zero.
