In reply to Bob Cook's message of Sat, 14 Nov 2015 06:51:41 -0800: Hi, [snip] >That being said, a lot of people think that quarks exist with fractional unit >charges. I do not. Specifically I do not classify a quark as a real >division of charge, since they do not seem to exist by themselves. I think >that the suggestion fractional charges—quarks—are real is associated with the >necessary geometry of associated real charges in a group of close electrons >and positrons as occur in a nucleus. > If quarks do exist, then the fractional charge may be correlated with the number of dimensions involved, e.g. a 1/3 charge may be related to motion in 1 dimension, 2/3 with 2 dimensions, and a full unit of charge with motion in 3 dimensions. This is just a guess - an attempt to make sense of the World.
Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
