Re: Question about Paul Dirac(The existance of the Positron)

Posted by sol on December 18, 2002 at 04:57:09:

In Reply to: Re: Question about Paul Dirac posted by DickT on December 06, 2002 at 08:27:27:

Dickt,

If one were to think of the elasticity here, as in Photon generation, what component would have been considered real, in order to snap into existance, such energy values from such pair prodictions?

Negative expression would have been a necessary component of anti-matter in order for such results to become known in the photon calculations of Clauser?

The great novelty of the Dirac formalism was the introduction of the spinor, which is a mathematical function having four components. Imagine you want to move in space-time with a bicycle: you need two wheels. However, you could also move using a unicycle, as an acrobat would do. Similarly, before Dirac came along, mathematics used only one "function" to describe a particle: a scalar function. Dirac's claim was that to describe an electron, you need a mathematical object having four components. In our daily life this would be like saying that to evolve in space-time we need a car with four wheels, not...

The matrice of Pauli and the one highlighted would have been the one to consider in the valuation of such negative energies?

Sol

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