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Re: point particles



The short answer is, "They are not so presumed."



On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, cliff parker wrote:

Why are electrons, quarks, etc presumed to be point particles in the
standard model? Are we just trying to force them to be fundamental
particles since nothing can be imagined smaller than a point.

Cliff Parker

Never express yourself more clearly than you can think.
Niels Bohr


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