[MD] Physics ???

[MarshaV]

At 01:20 PM 4/28/2008, you wrote:


>Greetings,
>
>What the heck is a partless particle?  Has any such thing been found
>to exist?
>
>Marsha
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>Ron:
> >From wiki:
>In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a
>particle not known to have substructure; that is, it is not KNOWN to be
>made up of smaller particles. If an elementary particle truly has no
>substructure, then it is one of the basic building blocks of the
>universe from which all other particles are made. In the Standard Model,
>the quarks, leptons, and gauge bosons are elementary particles.[1][2]
>
>Historically, the hadrons (mesons and baryons such as the proton and
>neutron) and even whole atoms were once regarded as elementary
>particles. A central feature in elementary particle theory is the early
>20th century idea of "quanta", which revolutionized the understanding of
>electromagnetic radiation and brought about quantum mechanics.
>
>All elementary particles are either bosons or fermions (depending on
>their spin). The spin-statistics theorem identifies the resulting
>quantum statistics that differentiates fermions from bosons. According
>to this methodology: particles normally associated with matter are
>fermions, having half-integer spin; they are divided into twelve
>flavours. Particles associated with fundamental forces are bosons,
>having integer spin.[3]
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_particles
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>
>interesting stuff.
>
>Part less particle is a  Madhyamika term.
>
>This essay may help
>http://www.weirdtech.com/sci/gizard.html
>
>-ron
>

Greetings Ron,

The wierdtech article is proving wonderful.  Both the timing and 
subject are perfect.  I'm only halfway through the article, but it is 
truly helpful.  I knew the book I'm reading was going to be tough.  I 
should have stuck to my guns and read it this first time for a 
general overview of the content and to try to pin down the 
vocabulary.  Anyway, you've helped me immensely.  Thank you.  Thank 
you.  Thank you.

Marsha

p.s.  I watched a bunch of those youtube Tales Of Mere Existence 
segments.  They were all wonderful.







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