Horace Heffner wrote:
So some of the mass, 0.45373 MeV/c2, comes from slowing down,
denergizing, the nucleus. This mass is strangely close to the
mass of the electron, 0.506667 MeV/c2.
Curiouser and curiouser.
... and in the big-picture (which does seem to superficially support the
various wave-structure theories) it is looking more and more like
'everything' in the nucleus can arguably be manipulated back to the mass
of the electron, either via a power law or some other way... is that all
coincidental, or just math-chicanery ?
Perhaps it is trickery, since by definition, leptons are fundamental
particles which do not feel the strong force... or else...
Perhaps leptons do NOT feel the strong force in 3-space, but otherwise
do feel it in other dimensions. It is tempting to equate the pi^5 term
with a fifth dimension, but that too could be coincidental. Yet the
google entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_dimension
uses a volumetric formula for 5-space which might have some relevance,
although it uses pi squared and radius^5. The 'bad boy' in the particle
soup is the gluon, which many suspect is not really a particle at all,
but could be an energy-relic of a real particle having been located in
another dimension.
BTW it turns out that the Tau, Tau Neutrino and quark debris are often
seen together (same time frame) in accelerator decay events, indicating
that they are linked in that brief time-span, before they further decay
into gammas.
In any event, perhaps someone (with thick skin and large cajones) should
prepare a Wiki update - to change the quark entry from:
"In particle physics, the quark is one of the two basic constituents of
matter (the other is the lepton)."
to
"In particle physics, the quark is not longer considered to be a basic
constituent of matter but is now considered to be a lepton which is
located outside of 3-space."
;-)
Jones
