Production of Photons in Positronium Decay: Critique of the Creation-Annihilation Hypothesis:
The Breit-Pauli Hamiltonian is adjusted through the addition of momentum-dependent exponential damping factors so that it possesses eigenfunctions which correspond to a tightly bound e+e- state with 2moec2 binding energy. The success which the corresponding Schrödinger-type calculations achieves calls into question the creation-annihilation hypothesis on a completely general basis.