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I know that these are the 2 interpretations about antiparticles, hypothesized to handle negative solutions to energy multiplied with time.

  1. What are the superiorities and drawbacks of each, compared to the other?
  2. Adopting the principle that each solution represents some part of reality, can these 2 interpretations be real for some (anti)particles in nature, coming from the positive solution (as neg*neg=pos)?

Then we would have 4 states for (anti)particles comprising all of the quadrants:

  • positive energy positive time
  • positive energy negative time
  • negative energy positive time
  • negative energy negative time
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Steven Weinberg in his “The Quantum Theory of Fields” states that charged bosons such as W+- particles, which do not obey an exclusion principle, have nothing preventing them from falling into negative energy states whether these states are occupied or not. This is a serious problem for the Dirac sea model. Weinberg then quotes Julian Schwinger: “The picture of an infinite sea of negative energy electrons is now best regarded as a historical curiosity, and forgotten.”

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