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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!husc-news.harvard.edu!husc8!mcirvin
  2. From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  4. Subject: Re: Why do protons outnumber antiprotons?
  5. Message-ID: <mcirvin.715642864@husc8>
  6. Date: 4 Sep 92 21:41:04 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: husc8.mcirvin.715642864
  8. References: <1992Sep01.152644.18241@CS.ORST.EDU> <12950074@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM> <25950@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <3SEP199220131399@zeus.tamu.edu>
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  13. dwr2560@zeus.tamu.edu (RING, DAVID WAYNE) writes:
  14.  
  15. >I think the real problem with the hole theory is that bosons
  16. >also have antiparticles, and the 'sea' can't fill up because there's no
  17. >exclusion principle.
  18.  
  19. That's also a problem, if you want to explain all particle non-
  20. conservation in terms of holes.  The early attempts at QED were
  21. actually in-between theories:  they described the only fundamental
  22. boson in the theory, the photon, as the quantum of a quantized
  23. electromagnetic field, but the matter particles were described
  24. using the Dirac sea and particle-hole pairs.  So they didn't
  25. encounter that particular problem, though, of course, they only
  26. dealt with electromagnetism.
  27. -- 
  28. Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
  29.