On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote:
*> I am beginning to suspect that we have no equation, the solution of > which gives us the wf of a RELATIVISTIC particle, * *The Dirac Equation was discovered way back in 1928, and it describes the quantum wave function of a RELATIVISTIC electron.* *(iγμ∂μ−m)ψ=0* *ψ is a four-component wave function that represents the quantum state of a fermion* *m is the mass of the particle* *γμ is called the gamma matrix, it encode spin and relativistic effects* *∂μ=(∂/∂t, ∂/∂x, ∂/∂y, ∂/∂z), it's called the four-gradient and it represents spacetime derivatives * *And i of course is √-1* *>or a PHOTON.* *Maxwell’s Equations already are relativistic and they already describe the correct degrees of freedom. So quantization of the electromagnetic field automatically results in photons. So there’s no need for a separate photon wavefunction equation.* * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 010 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0C2CEPh-%3DObq%2Bw-Mh5Y5woLmw-SAPPMid6TOrROASxXQ%40mail.gmail.com.
