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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 26: Andere Gebiete der Theorie

T 26.1: Talk

Friday, March 13, 2009, 14:00–14:15, M001

The Origin of Mass — •Albrecht Giese — Taxusweg 15, 22605 Hamburg

Every >extended< physical object has an inertial behaviour. This is the inevitable consequence of the fact, that the speed of light is finite, and so as well the propagation speed of the binding fields.

To explain the mass of elementary particles, we have to accept that those particles are not point-like but extended. If we e.g. use the size of the electron as evaluated by E. Schrödinger from the Dirac function, the fact of the delayed propagation gives us the correct mass of the electron by a very straight classical calculation.

For charged particles the radius follows classically from the magnetic moment. From his fact the correct Bohr Magneton of the electron can be classically derived and, equivalently, the corresponding value for all charged leptons and quarks. Then the mass of the particle follows quantitatively correctly. - No need for a Higgs field!

The constancy of the spin results classically. Energy conservation, further the relativistic increase of mass at motion and the mass-energy-relation (Einstein) are easily derived.

Further Information: www.ag-physics.org/rmass