English Explanatory Dictionary

Dirac sea

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A theoretical model of the vacuum as an infinite sea of particles with negative energy.

Word forms

Dirac sea Dirac seas

Etymology

First postulated in 1930 by the British physicist Paul Dirac.

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