Robin--
I asked the question you answered below in my previous response to you
earlier comment. Your idea about dimensions also crossed my mind. I
concluded that quark fractional charge was merely associated with the
coupling of electrons and positrons within nuclei, which coupling controls
how nuclei can be broken up in high energy collisions.
As I have indicated, I consider that quarks are merely part of the standard
model--empirical model--used by particle physicists to explain high energy
physics. The Standard Model is useful in predicting two and maybe three
particle interactions, but does not represent a real physical model.
Thanks,
Bob Cook
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Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: How many atoms to make condensed matter?
In reply to Bob Cook's message of Sat, 14 Nov 2015 06:51:41 -0800:
Hi,
[snip]
That being said, a lot of people think that quarks exist with fractional
unit charges. I do not. Specifically I do not classify a quark as a
real division of charge, since they do not seem to exist by themselves. I
think that the suggestion fractional charges—quarks—are real is associated
with the necessary geometry of associated real charges in a group of close
electrons and positrons as occur in a nucleus.
If quarks do exist, then the fractional charge may be correlated with the
number
of dimensions involved, e.g. a 1/3 charge may be related to motion in 1
dimension, 2/3 with 2 dimensions, and a full unit of charge with motion in 3
dimensions. This is just a guess - an attempt to make sense of the World.
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
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