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

[DAVID STOCKHOFF]

Stupendous!

I should never be surprised at how much older ideas turn out to be than one thinks, or than the technology that seeks to employ them. 

--- On Wed, 6/8/11, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) not quite Father Inire's mirrors . . .
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2011, 1:46 PM
> 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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