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We have shown in a previous paper that the Dirac bispinor can vary like a four-vector and that Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) can be reproduced with this form of behaviour.(1) In Part I of this paper, we show that QED with the same transformational behaviour also holds in an alternative space we call M-space. We use the four-vector behaviour to model the two-body interaction in M and show that this has similar physical properties to the usual model in L which it predicts. In Part II of this paper we use M-space to show that QED can be reduced to two simple rules for a two-body interaction.
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Bell, S.B.M., Cullerne, J.P. & Diaz, B.M. QED Derived from the Two-Body Interaction. Foundations of Physics 34, 297–333 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:FOOP.0000019585.77172.33
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