Re: What composes the mass of an electron?

Am Sonntag000003, 03.11.2024 um 23:44 schrieb rhertz:

This is the Standard Model of Elementary Particles, which has matured in
the last 60 years, since Hell-Man and others:
 https://www.quantumdiaries.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2000px- Standard_Model_of_Elementary_Particles.svg_.jpg
 It's composed of quarks, leptons, gauge bosons and the Higgs boson.
 MOST (BUT FAR FROM ALL) PHYSICISTS ACCEPT THIS CRUDE MODEL, WHICH HAS
MANY FLAWS.

Except that QFT assumes, that particles are certain exitations of the underlying quantum field (whatever they may mean).
I personally assume, that particles are 'timelike stable patterns' and do not really exist.
They are in fact 'certain exitations of the underlying quantum field' (but with 'spacetime' instead of 'the underlying quantum field'.)
That 'spacetime' could be named otherwise (like e.g. 'mumble').
But ' the underlying quantum field' would not be my favorite choice.
My choice was 'spacetime of GR', while ' the underlying quantum field' would be a possiblity, too, or possibly 'mumble'.
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