Re: point particles

[cliff parker <cparker@CHARTER.NET>]

From: "John Denker"
>  -- The non-circular version is to ask why anybody would pay
> attention to a model that assumes e.g. electrons are pointlike.
> The answer is that people have looked (really, really looked)
> and not seen any internal structure in electrons.

What do you mean by internal structure?  I imagine a marble or BB as an
object with no internal structure.  Meaning homogeneous material through and
through.  All marble and nothing else.  You must mean something else.  Are
you talking about things like charge distribution appearing to originate
from one point.  No tiny "tide" effects, that sort of thing?  Therefore no
implied size?