> Free nucleons are more massive than any proton or neutron that is
> bound in a nucleus. Outside or unbound nucleons are more massive.
Experimentally verified.
> The mass of the particles goes into the forces that bind them: the
> strong and the electromagnetic.
Current interpretation.
> The same is true for electrons.
Not so. Electrons are elementary. They have the exact
same rest mass when isolated and when they are part
of the electronic cloud of atoms.
André Michaud
> They are more massive when not in an atomic shell held by
> the elctromagneitc force. That force is as strong
> as the difference in mass.
> This is a unified version of everything.
>
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> Mitch Reamsch -- Light Fall --
BURT - 28 Dec 2007 01:19 GMT
On Dec 27, 7:45 am, s...@microtec.net wrote:
> > Free nucleons are more massive than any proton or neutron that is
> > bound in a nucleus. Outside or unbound nucleons are more massive.
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> André Michaud
WRONG. It is true for electromagnnetic binding energy also.
Mitch Raemsch
> > They are more massive when not in an atomic shell held by
> > the elctromagneitc force. That force is as strong
> > as the difference in mass.
> > This is a unified version of everything.
> > Gravity is the same. It turns mass into kinetic energy of freefall
> > motion.
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Autymn D. C. - 31 Dec 2007 17:47 GMT
On Dec 27, 7:45 am, s...@microtec.net wrote:
> > Free nucleons are more massive than any proton or neutron that is
> > bound in a nucleus. Outside or unbound nucleons are more massive.
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> same rest mass when isolated and when they are part
> of the electronic cloud of atoms.
radiation, dope