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Originally Posted by trinitree88
Bogie. Welcome to the forum.There are no experiments that I have seen, or heard of that have ever suggested that electrons have any type of internal structure. The decay of a tau, or muon, to electrons has always seemed to stop there. Along the way neutrinos are emitted, of the correct family type.
No scattering experiment involving electrons has ever suggested that there is an internal structure. They are point-like.
Even the decay of muons and taus is inappropriately viewed as being a "complex" electron. Those particles are not composites of electrons, muons, and neutrinos traveling in a troupe.....the disintegration is mediated by a weak force carrier. If the electron decayed to a smaller simpler particle, the charge would have to show up on it, or you would violate Conservation of Electric Charge....a Law that has never been seen to be broken in any cloud chamber, bubble chamber, wire chamber, or spark chamber anywhere. You will have to search the archived photos to find one, or program a UA1 detector to search for one, or look for one in DUMAND, or some such....Pete.
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I know, alas. We are speculating about an elementary unifying particle, not yet discovered. Anything I say about it is pure speculation. But I speculate that it has to be orders of magnitude smaller that the particles now being examined as you describe. And I speculate that it has to permeate space.
Relative to an electron that can be characterized as very small, the particle I speculate is infinitesimal such that an electron could be composed of a large swarm of EEPs.
Sorry if I give the impression that I think I am on to something. Really just speculating in hopes great minds will discover something like the EEP and make me look soooo smart,
