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The Electron

In Our Time: Science

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I Believe There Are Positively Charged Electrons Out There

Dirac spent three years trying to figure out what on earth these positively charged electrons are, because no one's ever seen such a thing in nature. He eventually comes to conclusion in about 1931 that these things must exist as his equation works so beautifully other ways. And then this is, I think, Frank said, one of the sort of most magical episodes in the history of science. Can you check out antimatter, Victoria?

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