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  1. AlphaNumeric Fully ionized Registered Senior Member

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    No. Ben didn't say that. Read what he said. If your comprehension skills are this poor, how do you possibly keep your job?!
     
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  3. BenTheMan Dr. of Physics, Prof. of Love Valued Senior Member

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    Have you been reading things by Farsight?
     
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  5. Reiku Banned Banned

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    A lot of physicists would disagree, but not about the cosmological principle being out of 122 magnitudes of order.
     
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  7. AlphaNumeric Fully ionized Registered Senior Member

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    The Dirac sea was corrected about 70 years ago. So no, they don't agree.

    How would you know anyway, you don't read lecture notes or text books.
     
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    I don't know about these corrections, however, the Dirac Model of the Sea of electrons fits perfectly into the model of a single electron moving through spacetime. If there is a mistake, then please, show me. I know that the Dirac Model describes a relativistic electron. If there is no relativistic electron, then there is no sea, and if there is no sea, then relativity does not hold for a single electron.
     
  9. Reiku Banned Banned

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    And there is a 2000-odd year old model of the Dirac Sea which Fred Alan Wolf used. If it wasn't in operation, he would never had used it.
     
  10. Walter L. Wagner Cosmic Truth Seeker Valued Senior Member

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    A good synopsis of the "Dirac Sea", and the correction to it, is found at Wikipedia.
     
  11. John J. Bannan Registered Senior Member

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    Thanks for answering my question.:bugeye:
     
  12. BenTheMan Dr. of Physics, Prof. of Love Valued Senior Member

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    When did I say all fundamental strings were photons?
     
  13. Reiku Banned Banned

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    Please, someone tell me, about these so-called corrections, without me having to look into those antiquated relics.
     
  14. AlphaNumeric Fully ionized Registered Senior Member

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    The Dirac sea came from the interpretation of scalar field theory in spinor field theory. Dirac initially interpreted the matter/antimatter nature of spinor fields using the ideas he'd come up with in scalar field theory, but he then realised that is wrong.

    Why don't you learn some quantum mechanics?
     
  15. John J. Bannan Registered Senior Member

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    If fundamental strings are the fundamental entity of physical reality, and the universe eventually expands into a state of only photons, then it is reasonable to conclude that all fundamental strings are photons. Why is this wrong?
     
  16. Reiku Banned Banned

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    Why not tell me something i don't know?
     
  17. funkstar ratsknuf Valued Senior Member

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    I thought he was doing exactly that?

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  18. AlphaNumeric Fully ionized Registered Senior Member

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    http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=83914

    PDE stands for 'partial differential equation'. You claim to know vector calculus yet you don't know what 'PDE' stands for?! :shrug:
     
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    I don't really know any string theory tbh, but if I was asked that question, I'd say: "because the universe still contains particles that are not photons".

    Although any of these quanta have an equivalent (in photon or energy terms, as Einstein tells us). Equivalent energy isn't the same as equivalent mass (or stringiness), it's only equivalent.
     
  20. prometheus viva voce! Registered Senior Member

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    Nonsense. PDE stands for "pickled dessicated elephant."

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  21. BenTheMan Dr. of Physics, Prof. of Love Valued Senior Member

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    Firstly, think about the gap in logic. The only thing that your first statement implies is that there are only photons in the universe.

    secondly, who said there would only be photons left?
     
  22. Reiku Banned Banned

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    It is possible to collide photons and create new matter.
     
  23. BenTheMan Dr. of Physics, Prof. of Love Valued Senior Member

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    What do you mean by new matter?
     
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