372:. The question would seem to me to be whether there would be the political will to provide an article on the Dirac equation that could be handled by bright pre-college types or other people with an interest in physics but without at least a couple years as a physics major or a math major. The unsigned message above is correct, I believe, in asserting that the prominence assumed by
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into Planck constant. To do so seems reasonable. However, Aymatth2 has brought up the idea that Dirac's constant, i.e., conceptualizing the quantum character of things in a new way, had some (at a minimum) heuristic effect in regard to the development of the Dirac equation. If that understanding can
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I have to go back to the macro world of angular momentum as it applies to diverting the courses of large athletic or angry bodies, so until I get caught up on the mental/spiritual world, or the "zone" of, martial artists I'm afraid I won't be much help. (Fortunately I only have to think about it at
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Investigating the history of the thought processes by which Dirac made his equations might well help some students understand the significance of the math in Dirac's work. But just take a look at the Dirac equation article and tell me where 15-20k of popularized physics and historical background
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Since you had the insight, you may be able to recover it by looking at what he wrote. The insight that h-bar encodes is that the angular velocity of an electron (in whatever sense an electron can have velocity) is quantized. Angular momentum, spin, etc., all mean something, and what we see on a
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classical scale may be built on these more fundamental phenomena. The key thing that Dirac did, as I understand it, was to create a model that could produce a particle-appropriate answer if asked one kind of question and a wave-like answer if asked a wavey question.
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