Re: What composes the mass of an electron?

On 04-Nov-24 3:30 am, The Starmaker wrote:

Sylvia Else wrote:

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On 03-Nov-24 3:05 am, The Starmaker wrote:

Sylvia Else wrote:

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On 02-Nov-24 2:13 am, rhertz wrote:

A definition of mass, as found in Google:
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"Mass is a measurement of the amount of matter or substance in an
object.
It's the total amount of protons, neutrons, and electrons in an object."
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It's "accepted" since the 60s that protons and neutrons are not
elementary particles anymore. As stated in the Standard Model of
Elementary Particles, protons and neutrons are composed of quarks, with
different flavors.
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https://www.quantumdiaries.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2000px-Standard_Model_of_Elementary_Particles.svg_.jpg
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But electrons are thought as elementary particles, so they can't be
formed by a collection of other elementary particles. Even quarks are
currently thought as working together with elementary gluons (QCD, Gauge
Bossons).
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So, what is THE MATTER that electrons contain?
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This is one of many FAILS of the current SMEP.
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Is that the electron's mass is composed of unknown matter? Maybe of
electromagnetic nature?
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After all, modern civilization is based on what electrons can do, isn't
it?
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THEY KNOW NOTHING, AS IN RELATIVISM!.

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An expectation that everything can be explained in terms of other
smaller things results in an infinite regression. It's not a rabbit hole
one wants to descend into.
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While one can hypothesise that the electron is not elementary, so far
there is nothing to suggest that it has an internal structure. Until and
unless something comes along to indicate that it is not elementary, you
have nothing more than empty speculation.
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Sylvia.

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Sylvia belongs to the lemmings generation. If 'somebody nameless' says the electron does not have mass...
then Sylvia THINKS the electron has no mass.

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Where did I so much as suggest that the electron has no mass?
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Sylvia.

 By your own words.
 You wrote: "...so far
   "...there is nothing to suggest that it has an internal structure."
  "...nothing to suggest that it has an internal structure."
  nothing
empty
 Slyvia, you should have wrote: :  "...there is nothing to suggest that it has NO internal structure."
    But instead you said: '...there is nothing to suggest that it posses an internal structure.'
  You are SUGGESTING the electron has NO mass.
 

Why are you linking the lack of internal structure with the lack of mass?
Sylvia.