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From: Aether Regained <AetherRegaind@somewhere.in.the.aether>
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Subject: Re: Positrons
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000
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Bertietaylor:> On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 19:43:23 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:
>
>> Aether Regained <AetherRegaind@somewhere.in.the.aether> wrote or quoted:
>> |                                                              The
>> |evidence for the positron is a lot stronger than the evidence for say
>> |quarks.
>
> There is plenty of evidence for Harry Potter and his broomstick.

Physical evidence is of course primary, and the evidence from cloud
chamber tracks (under magnetic fields) is solid.

Still I like this philosophical argument probably due to Dirac or
Feynman (paraphrased):

It is extremely remarkable that the electron and the proton are so
unlike each other, and yet have EXACTLY EQUAL (and opposite) charge. The
positron on the other hand, having the same mass as the electron, is not
as much of a miracle as the proton. It would not be very surprising if
the exactly equal charge of the proton is really derived from an
embedded positron.