Re: Revealing Fermion Masses

From: DRLunsford (antimatter33_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:43:32 +0000 (UTC)

This is very interesting work and I would urge everyone with any
interest in field theory to look it over!

The paper is however far too long. It should be broken up into several
shorter papers.

-drl

Jay R. Yablon wrote:
> > I quickly looked at your overview, and it doesn't look too bad. ;-)
> > You obviously know quite a lot about the electroweak theory and
> > particle physics in general. That's a really nice change, compared
to
> > the crank proposals we usually get here... ;-)
>
> Thank you!
>
> > Two short remarks:
> >
> > 1) Setting g_L = e^2 looks rather ad hoc, and you yourself admit
that it
> > is "not clear theoretically why g_L turs out to be so close to"
e^2.
> > Additionally, I see the problem here that you apparently propose a
> > hitherto unknown additional kind of interaction, mediated by
massless
> > vector bosons which couple to lepton number. Why has this
interaction
> > never been observed e.g. in scattering processes?
>
> I have actually been thinking quite a lot about this. I think the
e^4 term
> I arrive at in section 11 from the "lepton" coupling is the right
answer,
> but maybe for the wrong reason. The "right" reason -- I think -- is
that it
> is an e^4 loop added tot hr e^2 loop. If this is so, then I don't
need the
> lepton stuff at all, the electron mass prediction is independent of
anything
> having to do with the neutrino mass, AND, in answer to your next
question .
> .. .
>
> > 2) You probably know that the masses as well as the electric charge
> > and the weak mixing angle vary with energy ("running coupling
constant"
> > and all that). Is your formula consistent with that?
>
> I will be able to generalize to higher-order loops and thus make this
a
> "running" formula. I expect to post some updates along these lines
in the
> next few days once I think it all through a bit more.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jay.

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