Natural Science Forum / Physics / Particle Physics / December 2004

for quarks of electric charge -1/3
rest mass = rest mass of down quark x n^2
where n = 1,3,5,7

for quarks of electric charge +2/3
rest mass = rest mass of down quark x n^2 x 2^N
where N = -1,1,3,5

The values of n^2 could represent a radius^2 for a sphere of
electric charges of surface r^2.
At n = 5 the electric charges could become so far apart on the surface
of the sphere that a colour charge on the electric charges creates, by
quark confinement, new electric charges of opposite sign.This would
increase the number of charges on the surface of the sphere by a factor
of 3^2 = 9 times and account for why the top quark and bottom quark
have masses 9 times greater than predicted by their rest mass
equations.
If mass is caused by magnetic particles colliding with electric charges
on the surface of the sphere,9 times more magnetic particles will be
able to interact with the surface.