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Originally Posted by Bogie
[Snip!] First estimates to quantify the EEP were made in the “Infinite Reach of Gravity” thread and are recapped as follows:
EEPs in electron 381,239,356
EEPs in proton 699,955,457,517
Proton/electron EEPs - ratio 1836
radius of proton in average EEP diameters 5508
EEP average diameter 9.1 x 10^-20
EEP rest energy 5.71 x 10^-27 joules
EEP electrical charge -4.20260913 × 10-28 coulombs
EEPs have positive energy Electrical charge of the EEP is assigned a negative value
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Wow, 381,239,356 EEPs in an electron. Why this number and not 381,239,355 or 381,239,357 or ...?
If EEPs have negative charge, where does the positive charge of the proton come from? And with the proton being made of so many more EEPs than the electron, why is its charge exactly the negative of that of the electron?
All I see here is numerology. At least you're in good company. Eddington's
Fundamental Theory of the 1940s attempted to justify the fine-structure constant being about 1/137 and used it in an equation for the proton/electron mass ratio. Unfortunately even as he wrote it other particles beyond the electron, proton and neutron were being discovered in cosmic rays. Eddington's theory is a dead end.
Charge and its quantization is a real effect. Merely subdividing the known particles into large, seemingly random, numbers of units completely ignores this.