Re: Is Matter Mainly Made Of Nothing?

From: David Evens (devens_at_technologist.com)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:58:11 -0500

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:08:55 GMT, H@..(Henri Wilson) wrote:
>On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 01:38:31 -0500, David Evens <devens@technologist.com>
>wrote:
>>On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 21:50:58 GMT, H@..(Henri Wilson) wrote:
>>>On 3 Dec 2004 18:24:12 -0800, fsegg@uaf.edu (Eric Gisse) wrote:
>>>>H@..(Henri Wilson) wrote in message news:<ksi1r0drm6sijkdjg1etovo5gg4087tsqj@4ax.com>...
>>>>> On 3 Dec 2004 09:11:24 -0800, fsegg@uaf.edu (Eric Gisse) wrote:
>>>>> >H@..(Henri Wilson) wrote in message news:<s94vq0979cf84ibnvqsk5h499rfdm11vb0@4ax.com>...
>>>>> >
>>>>> >[snip]
>>>>> >
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> >Again, what are leptons made of? By your exact definition they are not
>>>>> >> >matter even though they are trivially observable to be massive.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> If 'leptons' are particles that have properrties, they must have a smaller
>>>>> >> structure that causes those properties.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >Such structure is unobserved.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> All matter is made of smaller bits of matter.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> What's wrong with that?
>>>>> >
>>>>> >It is a recursive definition, eg: "What is x made of? x, of course!".
>>>>> >It is also an empirically unsupported one. What are quarks made of?
>>>>> >What are leptons made of? You say "something smaller" but you have no
>>>>> >observational evidence for that something.
>>>>>
>>>>> What is a fractal pattern made of geese?
>>>>
>>>>Non-sequitur.
>>>>
>>>>What are leptons made of? You say "something smaller" but you have no
>>>>observational evidence for that something.
>>>
>>>What makes a lepton different from boson, an electron or a hole in the ground,
>>>Geese?
>>
>>Two things: Electrons ARE leptons. And I already pointed out what
>>makes bosons and non-bosons different.
>
>...and some leptons are electrons...and these are not bosons....
>
>Well that's a very clear and concise definition of electrons , lepton's and
>bosons.... and all in one sentence. Now we know all about it!
>Evens, you are brilliant!.

Henry Wilson makes dead rats look brilliant.