pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc) (08/27/85)
(Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA in article : <1003@brl-tgr.ARPA> admonishes: > Aw .. . you need to explain why its (electron) parts don't repel > each other (in other words, why it is a single cohesive entity). I don't have to explain why its parts don't repel unless you show me it has more than one part. Do you know of any broken electron parts laying around? Seems to me that an electron is about as close to an elementary particle as you can get. It has a half pair operator and array functions, and the operator function is to suck up a very specific number (proportional to charge) of information grains each time frame. The operator and array distributions can't be disjoint (logic), and that means you can't knock it apart since it would require an "infinite force" to overcome the logic coupling. (Same is true of "quarks".) In other words, once defined you're stuck with it. This concept works a little like making cookies with a cookie cutter and a sheet of dough. It is impossible to intersect the cookie cutter and the dough and not generate a "cookie" (information array) at the intersection of the cookie cutter and the dough, as opposed to generating the cookie at a remote (from the cutter) region of the dough sheet. The cookie is made where the cookie cutter "cuts" (creates) it. > The only semi-classical explanation for that seems to be that it has no > parts, which is tricky if it has nonzero radius... Geometrically, a point is only an intersection of two lines (only location), has no extent (zero radius), and consequently there is no other function possible. An entity with only location is trivial, and certainly would not be a physical entity. In the physical (real) world (space) point particles do not make sense; such a particle would require more energy than is available in the physical universe. Conclusion is that except for pure location no "physical entity" can be a point. Sorry to disagree with this part of your under- standing of such things. But cheer up, we'll conquer fusion in a few years. - - NOTE: MAIL PATH MAY DIFFER FROM HEADER - - +-------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Paul M. Koloc, President: (301) 445-1075 | FUSION | | Prometheus II Ltd., College Park, MD 20740-0222 | this | | ..umcp-cs!seismo!prometheus!pmk.UUCP | decade | +-------------------------------------------------------+--------+