In a message dated 3/10/01 12:17:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV
writes:
<< Hi all-
Others may wish to pontificate; I will content myself with a
question.
Suppose the zero-mass charge particles were confined (like
quarks). How would your argument work then?
Regards,
Jack >>
Great Question Jack. While quarks are not assumed to have zero rest mass the
prequarks theories of Haim Harari of Israel requires that these prequarks
have zero rest mass and one of them is postulated to carry an electrical
charge of 1/3. ( Please note I am not endorsing this theory but using it to
flesh out Jack's point) This theory requires chiral symmetry so it gives all
fundamental particles zero rest mass. These prequarks are confined in the
same manner as QCD confines Quarks with a force called Hyper color. ( The
weak force becomes a residual hyper color force in a similar manner to the
way the pion is the interchange particle for the strong force.)
So apparently confined particles can have zero rest mass, or can they?