http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.0079
These authors showed how to approach one of the fundamental problems of hadronic physics, the calculation of the baryon masses from the Lagrangian and the vacuum condensates of QCD. Cheers: Axil On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote: > >> >> What is it that is causing the proton in this model to vary in mass, and >> is the range of possible masses discrete or continuous? >> > > I should anticipate one possible answer, which seems like a good > explanation -- a proton is not a point particle, like a photon, and it does > not travel at the speed of light. It has mass and it has a speed that is > less than c. So the mass will vary with its speed; when it is stationary > it will have a rest mass, and when it is travelling > at relativistic velocities, it has a larger mass. > > Assuming the above is true, and assuming your model of a proton having an > average mass is true, the question for me now becomes, is the (rest) mass a > continuous value or discrete across a range? > > Eric > >
