Re: point particles

[cliff parker <cparker@CHARTER.NET>]

Good stuff Richard.  A few follow ups. below

From: "Richard A. Lindgren


> If you shoot 2
> electrons at each other at relativistic energies, they
> scatter from each other as if they were point objects.

What is unique about the way that point particles would scatter as opposed
to particles with size such as protons.

> However, we don't even
> know if the electron has a distribution or not. What you
> measure is the limit of the size of the charge
> distribution and that is what we refer to as the size of
> the electron.

I like this idea.  I am used to thinking about the size of an object being
the space where the mass is distributed I guess there is nothing more
special about mass distribution than there is about charge distribution is
there?