On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 10:21:34 -0800, "FrediFizzx" wrote:

"Paul Stowe" wrote in message
news | On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:17:27 GMT, Paul Stowe
wrote:
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|On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 21:05:19 -0700, David Smith wrote:
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| Dear Paul Stowe:
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| "Paul Stowe" wrote in message
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|...
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| Nature is NOT! Absractions... There exists in nature no
| point without volume,
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| electrons.
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| Nope
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| For the more objective, rational reader out there...
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| http://www.energyscience.org.uk/notes/rn9709.htm
| http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasc...0/phy00061.htm
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| Only an idiot would 'actually' think that particles have
| zero volume. Try calculating the mean free path of point
| particles. If one does they'll find it to be inifinite,
| because zero volume particles result in zero area
| cross-sections and without any cross-sectional area...

Another way to put it...

"...we have allowed what is perhaps a silly thing, the
possibility of the 'point' electron acting on itself."
-- Richard P. Feynman (1964)

Indeed! Feynman was not an idiot...

"Particles Come to Life"
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/10/12/1

So we have the conundrum of HEP showing that they have not be
able to find any *internal* "structure" for an electron.

At isssue is 'how' they attempt to 'find' such structure.
In particular, scattering...

Solution... the structure of an electron is external and is
due to the quantum "vacuum"

Agreed, the 'structure is a fluidic formation that responses
as a perfect elastic body. Such bodies do not have discernable
internal structure. To have that on must have a non-elastic
(rigid) body with some physical extent.

and relativistic effects. Higher energies will always just
result in a more point-like internal structure.

As mentioned above any body with perfect elastic and no
surface friction will scatter like as a pointlike entity.
That doesn't make it so...

Lower energies reveal the external structure.

Do you mean field interactive effects?

Paul Stowe