At 01:20 PM 4/28/2008, you wrote:
>Greetings, > >What the heck is a partless particle? Has any such thing been found >to exist? > >Marsha > > > > >Ron: > >From wiki: >In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a >particle not known to have substructure; that is, it is not KNOWN to be >made up of smaller particles. If an elementary particle truly has no >substructure, then it is one of the basic building blocks of the >universe from which all other particles are made. In the Standard Model, >the quarks, leptons, and gauge bosons are elementary particles.[1][2] > >Historically, the hadrons (mesons and baryons such as the proton and >neutron) and even whole atoms were once regarded as elementary >particles. A central feature in elementary particle theory is the early >20th century idea of "quanta", which revolutionized the understanding of >electromagnetic radiation and brought about quantum mechanics. > >All elementary particles are either bosons or fermions (depending on >their spin). The spin-statistics theorem identifies the resulting >quantum statistics that differentiates fermions from bosons. According >to this methodology: particles normally associated with matter are >fermions, having half-integer spin; they are divided into twelve >flavours. Particles associated with fundamental forces are bosons, >having integer spin.[3] > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_particles > > >interesting stuff. > >Part less particle is a Madhyamika term. > >This essay may help >http://www.weirdtech.com/sci/gizard.html > >-ron > Greetings Ron, The wierdtech article is proving wonderful. Both the timing and subject are perfect. I'm only halfway through the article, but it is truly helpful. I knew the book I'm reading was going to be tough. I should have stuck to my guns and read it this first time for a general overview of the content and to try to pin down the vocabulary. Anyway, you've helped me immensely. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Marsha p.s. I watched a bunch of those youtube Tales Of Mere Existence segments. They were all wonderful. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars... Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
