Considerations on the electromagnetic field wave equation and the Dirac equation

2015/10/15 by Duarte, Celso de Araujo
#FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1511.01342

Abstract

Here is constructed a heuristic, first-order differential equation for the electromagnetic field in the vacuum, based on a phenomenological ad hoc argument. The formal similarity between this ad hoc wave equation and the Dirac equation is explored.

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