But Feynman's idol, P A M Dirac, came to view the matter quite differently -- and not on abstract grounds, but rather as a result of chastening experience. He abandoned one of his own deepest innovations because it was contradicted by experiment. But the experiment was wrong.
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that is the entrance to the relativistic QM or as it became later the whole QFT . I didnt know of the history that the first experiment was a fail.... I think was it Irene Curie and her husband, who found the anti-particle ?
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The Wikipedia article on the positron gives a good sketch of the situation. But it omits to quote Dirac in his later career, when he no longer believed that one should simply abandon ideas "refuted" by experiment. http://bit.ly/2B7g503
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