Massless Elementary Particles = Bodies of Mass?
October 19, 2014 at 1:31 pm
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2014 at 1:31 pm by Mudhammam.)
I found the following quote, if accurate, to be a profound and mysterious statement about the fabric of reality:
"Mass is constructed entirely from the energy of the interactions involving naturally massless elementary particles ... The physicists kept dividing, and in the end found nothing at all." - Jim Baggott
1) Who is Jim Baggott?
2) How do masslass elementary particles on one level of description = varying weights of material bodies on another? Is it simply that elementary particles (or wavicles) do contain a very infinitesimally small amount of mass, and depending on how they bind, amount to weight? Is this unknown, and simply stands as another apparent paradox that sits at the limits of perception and understanding?
"Mass is constructed entirely from the energy of the interactions involving naturally massless elementary particles ... The physicists kept dividing, and in the end found nothing at all." - Jim Baggott
1) Who is Jim Baggott?
2) How do masslass elementary particles on one level of description = varying weights of material bodies on another? Is it simply that elementary particles (or wavicles) do contain a very infinitesimally small amount of mass, and depending on how they bind, amount to weight? Is this unknown, and simply stands as another apparent paradox that sits at the limits of perception and understanding?
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