Why do elementary particles have their values of rest mass?
A particles rest mass is associated with momentum travelling along a microspace. A specific value of momentum has an associated wavelength. This wavelength is determined by the length of the path the momentum is circling around in the microspaces. A stable particle requires that one full wavelength fits along the path. The microspaces are fixed in size, hence particle rest mass is determined. A full solution requires one to solve Schroedinger's equation on a 10 surface.
What causes a particle to attract or repel other particles?
The general theory of relativity showed that warping space-time can be interpreted as a force. Particles are merely following geodesic paths. In the case of microspaces, the space warp effects are seen as much stronger than for gravity. A shrinkage of 10-15 meters is a much larger in percentage terms to a space that is 10-14 meters than one that is 1040 meters.
What causes a particle to warp space-time?
Adding more momentum on a relativistic moving particle doesn't make it gain much velocity, it only further shrinks the spatial dimension it is traveling along and further dilates time. Bringing a particle, with its inherent momentum, next to another particle with its own inherent momentum, is like adding any other type of momentum to the particle. Time dilates and the spatial dimensions shrink.
What is an antiparticle?
A particle's mass consists of momentum travelling along a path. Momentum is a vector quantity which means it has value and a direction. A closed path around a microdimension can be travel along two directions. One direction is opposite of the first. An antiparticle is momentum traveling along the reverse vector of the first. This agrees with the idea that time reversal of a particle looks likes its antiparticle travelling forward in time.
Which way does antimatter fall on earth?
Positrons fall down from gravity, antiprotons and antineutrons fall down from their attraction to their antiparticle. Particles are always fall down with towards particles of a different type.
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Last Updated on February 22, 1998 by Bob Rutkiewicz