Re: What composes the mass of an electron?

On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 22:44:45 +0000, rhertz wrote:

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This article, prior to the super-symmetry theory, serves as an example
of the state of confusion that reigns in some branches of physics.
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That preons MUST EXIST, BUT CAN'T EXIST is the essence of the article.
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Inside the Quark
https://www.npl.washington.edu/av/altvw80.html

Hey, thanks, Richard.  I hadn't seen that article.  I've read
other speculations from Cramer that set me off in various
directions but hadn't heard about substructure in quarks and
leptons.  While reading the problem of high momentum due to
such tight confinement leading to excessively high energy I
immediately thought of tachyons, which have decreasing energy
as their speed increases, but momentum approaching a constant
of mc.  What to my delight, Cramer brings it up!
"Suppose we solve the momentum problem by giving preons a
tachyonic rest mass."
That solves the preon confinement problem!  He also says that
the e-neutrino would have a mass-squared of -130 +/- 20 eV^2,
but I couldn't find a reference for that.  If neutrinos are
tachyons, the beta decay experiments to determine neutrino
mass-squared should give zero, which is where KATRIN is "zeroing"
in on.