Re: electron as point particle.


Bjoern Feuerbacher wrote:
> shevek4@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Old Man wrote:
> >
> >><shevek4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >>news:1114541530.080722.71120@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >>>A point particle description is an obvious approximation,
> >>>though a quite useful one.
> >>
> >>The point is elementary. An elementary particle posses no
> >>observable structure.
> >>
> >
> >
> > The study of structure functions to describe scattering of
elementary
> > particles would seem to disagree with your assertion, at least for
> > nucleons.
>
> But nucleons are not elementary particles.
>

That could be debated. Let's say leptons to keep on the same page.

>
> > Wave-mechanics also disagrees, an electron wave-function has
spatial
> > behavior and is not a delta function.
>
> So what? The wave function of the electron is not the electron
itself.
>

I disagree. I think the Copenhagen interpretation disagrees as well.

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