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A New Interpretation of the Negative Energy Solutions to Dirac Equation and a Configuration of the Electron

1DuPont China Technical Center, 600 Cailun Road, Shanghai 201203, P.R. China


International Journal of Physics. 2023, Vol. 11 No. 6, 283-290
DOI: 10.12691/ijp-11-6-2
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Zhonglin BO. A New Interpretation of the Negative Energy Solutions to Dirac Equation and a Configuration of the Electron. International Journal of Physics. 2023; 11(6):283-290. doi: 10.12691/ijp-11-6-2.

Correspondence to: Zhonglin  BO, DuPont China Technical Center, 600 Cailun Road, Shanghai 201203, P.R. China. Email: bill.b.bo@dupont.com

Abstract

A thorough mathematic analysis was conducted to the negative energy solutions to the Dirac equation in a complex plane due to the fact that the solutions are vectors of complex number. An opposite vector with negative energy state was identified when a vector with positive energy state was defined in a complex plane. We concluded that any opposite vectors in a complex plane must have opposite energy state because their vector heads move always in opposite direction. We configured an electron as a small ball with dimetric vectors instead of a structureless mass point. Based on the new electron configuration, we explained the particle wave duality as the feature of electron’s spinvector in motion, explained the reason for the electrons with half spin quantum number. And we concluded that de Broglie’s standing waves theory would be more rational than the interpretation by current quantum theory.

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