• @[email protected]
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    138 months ago

    One reason why that is probably not true is because there are less positrons but if it were true they should number the same as electrons, right?

    But if electrons are moving along the same “time direction” as we are and positrons are moving in the opposite “direction” then wouldn’t we expect there to be less protons? As we can’t measure the protons that already “passed” us? And we would measure more electrons as a some/many/all of the existing electrons are traveling alongside us?

    • Flying SquidOP
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      158 months ago

      I think you may have put more thought into this than Feynman. But then he probably had someone waiting for him in bed…

      • @[email protected]
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        108 months ago

        I know! Horrible isn’t it? I just can’t help it, thinking about stuff is actually fun for me… so embarrassing!

        • Flying SquidOP
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          128 months ago

          It was more a joke about how Feynman had two great loves: physics and fucking. And probably fucking more than physics.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        Positrons are different from protons. Both have a positive charge, but a positron is an elementary particle of a similar mass as an electron. They are rather rare in nature which OP was noting. Protons are made of three elementary particles, much heavier than positrons, and are, I imagine, present in nature in about the same order of magnitude as electrons.