In reply to David Roberson's message of Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:05:01 -0400 (EDT): Hi, [snip] >I am still attempting to understand how and where the mass is distributed >around a charged particle since my thoughts suggest that a portion of the mass >must exist as energy in the surrounding fields. > I suspect that all the mass exists as energy in the surrounding fields. Or perhaps more accurately, that as suggested by Puthoff and others, mass is a consequence of interaction of charge (&/or perhaps magnetic moment) with the ZPF.
That would obviously result in mass being reduced as proton and electron cancel one another's external field. Mills simply says that the electron cancels that portion of the proton field external to the electron. IMO that implies that the proton also effectively cancels that portion of the electron field external to the electron. In short the field energy that has been cancelled is emitted as photons, and the mass is reduced as a consequence of the fact that there is now that much less interaction with the ZPF. Energy is conserved, the mass is reduced accordingly, or simply put "mass is converted into energy". As a consequence, shrinking masses need to be taken into account when creating wave functions for sub-orbital levels. For the excited states of Hydrogen this made little difference because, as you point out, the mass change, for small energy changes, is minimal. However for f/H, the story is different. Particularly at deep levels, where a significant proportion of the mass has been converted to energy. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
