(urth) not quite Father Inire's mirrors . . .

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes danldo at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 10:46:21 PDT 2011


DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:

> "Virtual particles" seem to provide a plausible explanation even if they postdate the books:

Actually, they were first proposed by Paul M.A. Dirac in 1930, so no
problem there. The positron was conceived of as a "hole in the Dirac
sea" before it was recognized as an anti-electron and demonstrated in
1932.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes



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