Re: Positrons

Am Dienstag000008, 08.07.2025 um 22:00 schrieb Aether Regained:

Bertietaylor:> On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 19:43:23 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:

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Aether Regained <AetherRegaind@somewhere.in.the.aether> wrote or quoted:
|                                                              The
|evidence for the positron is a lot stronger than the evidence for say
|quarks.

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There is plenty of evidence for Harry Potter and his broomstick.

 Physical evidence is of course primary, and the evidence from cloud
chamber tracks (under magnetic fields) is solid.
 Still I like this philosophical argument probably due to Dirac or
Feynman (paraphrased):
 It is extremely remarkable that the electron and the proton are so
unlike each other, and yet have EXACTLY EQUAL (and opposite) charge. The
positron on the other hand, having the same mass as the electron, is not
as much of a miracle as the proton. It would not be very surprising if
the exactly equal charge of the proton is really derived from an
embedded positron.
 

My own guess about the relation between electron and proton goes like this:
'electron' denotes the far end of a standing 'rotation wave' and 'proton' this inner turning point.
What we call 'charge' is therefore kind of a wave and an atom the entire wave, which has certain characteristic points.
These points get certain names and we treat them as real, lasting, material objects.
But that is actually wrong and we should regard particles as certain timelike stable structures.
See here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ur3_giuk2l439fxUa8QHX4wTDxBEaM6lOlgVUa0cFU4/edit?usp=sharing
TH