Feynman diagram Antiparticles seem to go backward in time Representation Commentary

Richard Feynman quantum mechanics

Feynman diagram

A Feynman diagram graphs paths of subatomic particles against time, in which lines entering from the left and leaving to the right carry energy, momentum, and spin, in which each vertex represents where particles interact or split, and internal lines are propagators. Straight lines are fermions, wavy lines are bosons, and helical lines are gluons.

Antiparticles seem to go backward in time

Ernst Stueckelberg interpreted the positron, the electron’s antiparticular mate, as though it were an electron moving backward in time.

Representation

A Feynman diagram represents a possibility for a set of interacting particles, but it doesn’t represent all possibilities, which would be almost all of an infinite number of diagrams, which would be like . . . like . . .