Re: Lousy non culture follows bogus physics

Bertitaylor:> On Fri, 4 Jul 2025 19:46:00 +0000, Aether Regained wrote:

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@Arindam aka @Bertietaylor,
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What makes you so confidently dismiss the positron? Aren't cloud chamber
traces like the ones below irrefutable proof of positrons:

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We don't see any need for the positron in the universe for the
explanation of its workings.
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As for cloud chamber stuff it shows not just positrons but also Hell
knows how many so called fundamental particles. All as useless as
positrons. Hocus pocus.
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True, there is a particle zoo out there. Andrew Pickering's
"Constructing Quarks" and Alexander Unzicker's "The Higgs Fake" go in
depth into this topic. But, just for this reason, throwing out the
positron is like "throwing out the baby with the bath water". The
evidence for the positron is a lot stronger than the evidence for say
quarks.

I still hold out hope for the Dirac-Wheeler idea that the electron, the
positron and the aether are all there is. But of course, to gain general
acceptance, one has to explain convincingly (among other things) why a
collection of 918 e+ and 917 e- (a proton) or 919 e+ and 919 e- (a
neutron) are stable and not other combinations of e+ and e-.