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On Jul 25, 5:10 am, Loui...@edu.herlufsholm.dk wrote:
> ARE ELECTRONS PHYSICAL ENTITIES?
> If an electron is a physical matter-/energy ‘particle’ then it MUST
> have a maybe not definite mean geometrical extension.
>
> THE STANDARD-MODEL IS NOT ULTIMATE, MAYBE WRONG?
> It is in the not ultimate standard-model of ‘elementary-particles’
> that an electron is described without a physical geometrical
> extension.
> In the standard-model of ‘elementary-particles’ the electron is
> described as a ‘point-particle’ that have been given AD HOC physical
> properties as mass, electric charge, spin, magnetic moment etc.
>
> It must be time experimentally to discover the ‘true’ nature of the
> electron!
>
> Best regards
> Louis Nielsen
> Denmark

Louis, what is that you don't yet get?

Realize that the electron is merely an intellectual abstraction, which
serves a useful purpose in modeling interactions with other particles
and fields.  While an electron is conceptually modeled and visualized
at a particle, and that model works to date rather well, scinece yet
has no idea what an electron actually is. Is it a particle, a diffuse
quantity of something, or even an electromagnetic wave phenomena. The
fact is, nobody knows.

The conventional conceptualization of an electron as a particle is
convenient.  We can accelerate those little buggers, deflect their
paths, and measure their mass.  We can use them to charge batteries,
and operate our television sets and cell phones.  We can see their
flight paths using cloud chambers and bubble chambers, or spark
chambers.  Still, we cannot capture even one of these little buggers
for close examination.

So we know how an electron acts, but have no idea what it actually
is.

Do I hear any arguments?

Harry C.