Re: Question About Charged Particles.

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

        But quarks are massless in the unconfined phase of QCD, and
quarks are electrically charged.
                                Regards,
                                        Jack
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, brian whatcott wrote:

> > On 4/7/01 at 1:14:05 PM EDT, Jim Green wrote with a certain well-founded
> vexation:
> > << What on Earth have electrical charge and color charge and weak charge have
> > to do with each other???  What gives rise to comparisons between color and
> > Coulomb -- other than at some point some odd fellow (or lady, I don't
> > remember) used the English word "charge" for all three cases?  Isn't this
> > discussion just complicated by physics cuteness?
> At 15:30 4/7/01 EDT Bob, running visibly towards the limits of his
> patience, responds:
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> > IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A CHARGED PARTICLE TO HAVE ZERO REST MASS?
> >
> > Bob Zannelli
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> No. There is a mass associated with unit charge of plus or minus
> 9.1E-31 kg about at least, and possibly 207 times greater.
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> (It will be much more productive to round on me, than on each other :-)
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> brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>  Altus OK
>                 Eureka!

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