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<div>It may well be possible to explain charge in terms of mass; but I expect (for vague reasons) that it will turn out the other way around. Gravitation will be seen as a residue effect of E&M due to some asymetry in the two signs on Gauss's Law (repulsion vs. attraction). At this time: just guesses!</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 17. November 2015 um 02:10 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "John Williamson" <John.Williamson@glasgow.ac.uk><br/>
<b>An:</b> "Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion" <general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org><br/>
<b>Cc:</b> "pete@leathergoth.com" <pete@leathergoth.com>, "Nick Bailey" <nick@bailey-family.org.uk>, "Mark, Martin van der" <martin.van.der.mark@philips.com>, "David Williamson" <david.williamson@ed.ac.uk><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [General] SU(2) equation set</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hello Al, et al.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">Hi Chip:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">The answer to your question below: from formal logic we know that ALL logical structures are built on a set of "primative objects" that cannot be deduced logically or othrwise. That is, the subject(s) of a theory really ought to be set out as hypothetical entities first.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;color: blue;">Agreed. I just do not want to start from charge as I’m trying to explain just what charge IS.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;"><span> </span>For physics theories the choice of primative objects for a theory are usually considered to be entities inspired by empirical experience. Very difficult at the micro level! </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;color: blue;">Yep – realised this when I took it on. Gave it up once or twice too _ then found a friend (thanks Martin). Two was enough to make the progress we have – it has taken me about forty years so far and counting. It would be kind of good to have a few more folk helping us in our old age though!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">But still, among the things involved in electrodynamcial experience, electrons are the most clearly evident and presistent. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;color: blue;">I agree – this is what I decided in 1979. Thanks to David Bohm. So – one needs to understand just what electrons ARE huh?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;"> Entities like "energy," "field" and virtually everything but charge, mass, position as a function of time (compared to some cyclic standard) are abstractions, not ontological entities. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;color: blue;">Agree with this mostly, but disagree on one point. Charge is just as bad. Position and time and mass. That is all I’m using. One needs to DERIVE charge fro<a name="_GoBack"></a>m ones onta.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">Making them the primative elements for a theory can be expected to lead to mystical jibberish. Physics, after all, is supposded to be about the material world, so that making the primative elements of physics theories abstractions is utterly misguided! That's religion, of which the world has too much already.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;color: blue;">I agree completely. Forget taking charge as a starting point then. Agreed?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">Hope that claifies my position. I did not get my message chiseled on stone from a burning bush, however. But neither did anybody else!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;color: blue;">Nope – for me the bush was just blowin gently in the wind! The cool stone melted smoothly into such a beautiful form!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">Best, Al </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;color: blue;">Ciao, John W.</span></p>
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