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The Dirac equation. Cosmic implications of a tidy electron

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, , Citation David Miller 1997 Phys. Educ. 32 238 DOI 10.1088/0031-9120/32/4/018

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Abstract

Dirac devised the quantum theory of the electron itself, which required him to generalize Schrödinger's famous equation to cover relativistic motion. He interpreted the resulting equation as showing that an antiparticle to the electron must exist.

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