Re: What does quark mass mean?

From: Oz (Oz_at_farmeroz.port995.com)
Date: 03/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:28:22 +0000 (UTC)

FrediFizzx <fredifizzx@hotmail.com> writes
>How could the electrostatic energy be considered part of the mass when
>it extends out to very far away from an electron? How could this lead
>to even the classical electron radius? r = e^2/(m_e*c^2) definitely has
>to be a rough approach. I think for the mass of an electron, we have to
>think outside of the point-like particle though. Plus, mass should
>necessarily occupy a volume of space.

I'm not quite sure precisely what you mean by 'mass should necessarily
occupy a volume of space'.

Do you mean this in the sense of 'completely occupy'?

If that is the case then I cannot agree. Photons in a box, and even
elastic (or electric) energy in a body is diffuse and spread throughout
the body. So I conclude that 'mass fields' can and do intersect.

So as far as I can see the mass of an electron can indeed be distributed
over all of space. Certainly it need not be, and almost certainly is
not, at a specific point in space. 

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