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A crucial paragraph later in the text reads: There are several grave difficulties which arise when one tries to maintain the suggestion that the protons are gaps of negative energy, and that there are no distinctive particles of positive charge.

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A crucial paragraph later in the text reads: There are several grave difficulties which arise when one tries to maintain the suggestion that the protons are gaps of negative energy, and that there are no distinctive particles of positive charge.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 23:36:21 UTC Robert McNees
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Dirac, after the discovery of his eponymous equation, explored the idea of the proton being the positively charged anti-particle of the electron.
A 1930 paper by Oppenheimer scuttled this proposal, pointing out several problems with the interpretation.
Ref: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.35.562

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