Saturday, September 6, 2008

DIRAC AT A GLANCE.

DIRAC EQUATION JUSTIFIED IN ONE SENTENCE

The Dirac equation is the statement that the electron satisfies the simplest WAVE equation possible in space-time. The simplest wave equation is first order, and is of the type dw = w. If the differential operator d treats all dimensions equally (and it better does that, to satisfy the Einsteinian-Minkowski wish of treating all dimensions equally, and time "as" space), one gets the Dirac operator.

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