That is one possible interpretation. Another possible interpretation is that a proton under bombardment assumes properties which are consistent with the standard model of a proton, but in a cool environment the proton is more like a positron and a neutron.
In recent years I began to feel that high energy physics experiments might be places where the properties of sub-atomic particles are *forged rather than discovered. With the positron-in-neutron I can now point to a specific experiment to illustrate this feeling. *forge /fôrj/ Verb 1.Make or shape (a metal object) by heating it in a fire or furnace and beating or hammering it. 2.Move forward gradually or steadily. Noun A blacksmith's workshop; a smithy. On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Joseph S. Barrera III <j...@barrera.org>wrote: > On 5/2/2013 10:16 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: > > > This evening -- while thinking outside the confines of the standard > model -- I imagined proton is a neutron with a positron. > > Well, first of all, you need a neutrino in there as well, otherwise the > spins won't add up. > > But we do know better than we did in 1933. The deep inelastic scattering > experiments done in 1968 at SLAC show three points of deflection, with > fractional charges. There were no leptons (electrons or positrons) in > evidence -- those have integral charge. > > - Joe > >
