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> So an energetic system where the masses don't add up doesn't seem like an epoch defining mystery to me. Bound states aren't really made of their constituent
by hither_shores 4y ago
> So an energetic system where the masses don't add up doesn't seem like an epoch defining mystery to me.
Bound states aren't really made of their constituents in a classical sense. A proton is a particular configuration of the quark fields (really it's more complicated than this), but not a simple sum of quark particle states. And in particular, its mass doesn't have to be the sum of the masses of particle states.
- hinkley 4y agoThe mass+energy still have to sum up though, don't they?
- hither_shores 4y agoThe mass of what? There aren't literally three quarks inside a proton.
- hinkley 4y agoCircling back to my original question, is the system exhibiting behavior that does not agree with special relativity (vs Newtonian physics)?
- hither_shores 4y agoWith special-relativistic classical mechanics? Of course. With special-relativistic quantum mechanics? No.