Hi Horace, You stated: "Note that this also represents a pressure to the vacuum of 5.8678x10^111 Pa."
Which ties in perfectly with my qualitative model of the vacuum as a medium which is under extreme tension or pressure, but with extremely little viscosity. Thus, if you were to 'strike' a small local area, it will oscillate (ring) for a very, very long time (what's the lifetime of a proton or electron?). Why doesn't the oscillation spread out? Due to the vacuum being made up of smaller, polarizable elements, the oscillation affects the surrounding elements and they polarize (perhaps manifesting as E and/or B fields?) which then acts like a kind of surface tension or barrier to contain the oscillating elements to a very small spacial area... which we perceive as e-, p+, or quarks, which then combine to form e-, p+, n. -Mark
