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From: bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertietaylor)
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Subject: Re: Positrons
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:29:43 +0000
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On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000, Aether Regained wrote:

> 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.

Rubbish. Just lies like big bang, black hole, SR, GR, photon, etc.

Woof
>
> 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.

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