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*"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_sea Dirac Sea]" is a real scientific term (though it was not fully explained on-screen). It is a theoretical model of the vacuum as an infinite sea of particles possessing negative energy, that was invented by the British physicist Paul Dirac in 1930. | *"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_sea Dirac Sea]" is a real scientific term (though it was not fully explained on-screen). It is a theoretical model of the vacuum as an infinite sea of particles possessing negative energy, that was invented by the British physicist Paul Dirac in 1930. | ||
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Revision as of 23:25, 4 March 2008
In Episode 16, Shinji is pulled down into the "shadow" of the Angel Leliel. Ritsuko describes this space as a Dirac Sea (ディラックの海).
- Ritsuko: "It's six hundred eighty meters in diameter with a thickness of three nanometers. The ultra-thin space is supported by an inwardly-directed AT Field. The inside is an imaginary space, called a Sea of Dirac. I think it's probably connected to another universe."
Essentially it is a pocket-dimension of sorts, from which it is impossible to escape.
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- "Dirac Sea" is a real scientific term (though it was not fully explained on-screen). It is a theoretical model of the vacuum as an infinite sea of particles possessing negative energy, that was invented by the British physicist Paul Dirac in 1930.
