Re:Particle physicists puzzle over a new duality
by zmgsabst on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @10:35PM
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> Because that's the point of classification - we want to distinguish between case A and case B.
Right — but why?
What is useful about that classification if the two types of particles emerge the same way, as holes within a substrate?
What do we gain in “composite” vs “quasi”?
> No, there is no cold aether, and protons are not holes in anything.
There is — we can measure vacuum energy as existing. We can also measure spacetime as existing, directly. We know there’s an aether.
> Proton mass comes from the confinement of its constituent parts. […] Flux tubes are just shapes of magnetic fields.
Flux tubes are the region where the connection between quarks suppresses the fuzz from vacuum energy. That’s where the non-quark mass comes from. (As you call it, confinement.)
Right — but why?
What is useful about that classification if the two types of particles emerge the same way, as holes within a substrate?
What do we gain in “composite” vs “quasi”?
> No, there is no cold aether, and protons are not holes in anything.
There is — we can measure vacuum energy as existing. We can also measure spacetime as existing, directly. We know there’s an aether.
> Proton mass comes from the confinement of its constituent parts. […] Flux tubes are just shapes of magnetic fields.
Flux tubes are the region where the connection between quarks suppresses the fuzz from vacuum energy. That’s where the non-quark mass comes from. (As you call it, confinement.)
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