The Dirac sea is a theoretical model of the electron vacuum as an infinite sea of electrons with negative energy, now called positrons. It was first postulated...
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In particle physics, the Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation derived by British physicist Paul Dirac in 1928. In its free form, or including...
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"Ripples in the Dirac Sea" is a science fiction short story by American writer Geoffrey Landis. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in...
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac OM FRS (/dɪˈræk/; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English mathematical and theoretical physicist who is considered to...
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Negative energy (section Dirac sea)
positive and negative energy. According to the theory of the Dirac sea, developed by Paul Dirac in 1930, the vacuum of space is full of negative energy. This...
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absorbed into an Angel called Leliel in a space of imaginary numbers called Dirac sea. Shinji has a vision in which he sees another self as a child and discusses...
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scientific and religious concepts such as nucleotide bases, apoptosis, the Dirac sea, the God Marduk, and crucifixion. Writer Shinji Higuchi was inspired by...
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Antiparticle (section Dirac hole theory)
lifted out of this Dirac sea to become a positive-energy particle. But, when lifted out, it would leave behind a hole in the sea that would act exactly...
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Dirac hole theory is a theory in quantum mechanics, named after English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac, who introduced it in 1929. The theory poses that...
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from the positron, which is the antiparticle of the electron. (See also Dirac sea.) In crystals, electronic band structure calculations lead to an effective...
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