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Quark Theory of Mass

By: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND

 

• Conventional physics has identified the quark as the underlying organizational unit of energy that comprises the proton and neutron.

o Likewise, the various types/flavors of quark-masses constitute many of the other subatomic particles.

o The method by which quarks related inside a proton and neutron is unknown.

§ A complex system of gluons, quarks, and antiquarks has been hypothesized as the units of charge that constitute the subatomic zoo.

o The theory is elegant, and largely explanatory and predictive of how particles form and decay.  The success in predicting the existence of new particles gives a strong confirmatory voice in support of the quark theory.

§ Thus, we shall assume that at least some aspect of the quark theory is reflective of the way that the structure of the subatomic particles is configured.

o Quarks may reflect the units that DPs organize themselves internally inside the subatomic particles.  

§ Or, the quarks may merely be units of charge that appear for short times when particles decay or are broken by collision.

§ The quarks do not appear to be a sufficiently long-lived particle to be detectable as tracks in bubble chambers.  Thus, the existence of the quark has been conjectured from the decay-product essence produced by the particle showers they create upon collision.   

§ The formation of the protons and neutrons from DPs may have resulted from the highly energetic, and super dense state after the Big Bang.  

• The proton and neutron appear to be stable subatomic particles.  Other, more exotic particles such as the higher energy quarks (strange, charm, top, bottom), and the higher energy electron-leptons (Mu and Tau), and the higher energy mesons (Kaons, and Lambda particles, etc.) have in general decayed down to the more stable particles.  The more common decay products associated with radioactive decays of elements such as the pi meson quickly dissociate into photons, neutrinos, and positrons or electrons.  
• Thus, the stable low energy states appear to populate the ordinary states of matter in the conventional earth-surface level existence.  
• Some of the higher energy particles show up inside of particle accelerators, stars, nova explosions, and black holes.  These particles are important only in the sense that they give us clues about what the fundamental structural elements of the universe might be, i.e. something that might be able to manifest this particular form of layered diversity.

§ A neutron has a half life of about 10 minutes, unless it is bonded with a proton, in which case its lifetime may be indefinite, depending on the nuclear ratio of neutrons to protons.

• If too many neutrons are present in the nucleus, the neutrons are unstable, and one of them will decay into a proton, electron and neutrino within a particular half-life.
• This is simply an example of the fact that even the more stable particles (neutrons) are not monolithic, they have structure.  As such, we are attempting to identify the fundamental particles, the methods, and the soul-spirit implications of this layering process that we see so clearly evidenced in creation.