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Re: The Electron



At 16:15 -0600 11/10/03, Dan Crowe wrote:

Hugh has given the Standard Model description of an electron.
My limited understanding is that according to Superstring Theories,
an electron is a resonant vibrational state of a superstring.

Interesting. I have not studied much about string theory so I was
unaware of this, but I remember reading somewhere that someone,
Lorentz, perhaps, had at one time modeled the electron as a vortex
ring of the ether. Sounds kind of similar to my untrained ear.

Hugh
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