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Not terrestrial.
Physics meaning from physicist Dirac's notion that an ordinary electron “rests” on the Dirac sea (terrene) whereas a positron exists as a “hole” in that sea (contra-terrene).
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From contra-, opposing, and terrene, of the earth
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