Extrinsic Quaternion Spin

Bryan Sanctuary

doi:10.20944/preprints202302.0055.v1

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Received: 2 March 2023
Commenter: Mark Hadley
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The paper makes some changes to the Dirac equation and then draws all sorts of conclusion, claiming they are a consequences. Mathematical words are used inappropriately and without apparent understanding throughout the paper. E. g.

What is a hermitian space? The strange mathematics makes it difficult to discuss.

What we can say for sure is that a difference representation of the gamma matrices gives no new physics.

However using matrices that do not satisfy the Clifford algebra might seem like a small and acceptable change to the author, but it is not. The resulting equation simply won't work. It won't transform correctly under spacetime symmetries and you won't be able to define a conserved particle number.

It is not worth proceeding further into the detail of the paper when it is based on equations that cannot represent real particles.

If the author wants to change the Dirac equation he first needs to show in detail that 1) all important results are still valid 2) if it is valid then the next step is to show that it is physically different.

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Response 1 to Comment 1

Received: 3 March 2023
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Bryan Sanctuary

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Comment: Mark Hadley comments are disingenuous. He fails to understand the presentation follows Dirac's seminal work, so if he says I am wrong, he is also saying Dirac is wrong.

The only change I made is to multiply one of the well known gamma matrices by the imaginary number "i". From that small change the rest follows.

In the last two points, Hadley ignores the fact that I show the resulting quaternion equation does indeed recover the original Dirac equation. The new result is quaternion spin which reveals properties that formulate coherence This is new and its implication appear to have far reaching consequences for our understanding of the foundation of physics

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Extrinsic Quaternion Spin

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