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- From: barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
- Subject: Why are elementary particles small?
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 23:50:10 GMT
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- Why are elementary particles small?
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- Clearly, the ones that comprise our bodies must be much smaller than
- ourselves, but why are there no other elementary particles that are
- the size of, say, a baseball?
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- If there were an elementary particle the size of a baseball,
- what color would it be? What would happen if you touched it?
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- Barry Merriman
- UCLA Dept. of Math
- UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
- barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet; NeXTMail is welcome)
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