Sunday, January 31, 2016

Why can't the Klein-Gordon equation explain the hydrogen atom but the Dirac equation does?


Why can't the Klein-Gordon equation with a Couloumb potential describe the hydrogen atom?



Why can the first order Dirac equation explain it? What are the failures?




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