Time Reversal in Classical Electromagnetism
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Time reversal in classical electromagnetism
Richard Feynman has claimed that anti-particles are nothing but particles ‘propagating backwards in time’; that time reversing a particle state always turns it into the corresponding anti-particle state. According to standard quantum field theory textbooks this is not so: time reversal does not turn particles into anti-particles. Feynman’s view is interesting because, in particular, it suggests...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0007-0882,1464-3537
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axp015