Abstract: Relativity provides the right approach to clarify the true meaning of mass: elementary particles (leptons), with no internal structure, have mass of electromagnetic nature and “virtual” (not inertial), whose interactions occur in an abstract or “inner” space established by Quantum Field Theory.
This space, connected to the phases of the wave functions or fields, is established from an interactive network corresponding to the strong interaction and completed by weak interaction (with the concourse of the electromagnetic one), giving rise to the compound particles (hadrons), which are able to form the atoms and molecules, whose structure provides the necessary condition for the “inertia” corresponding to the mass of tangible bodies, that are manifested at the “exterior” space, according to the laws of Classical Mechanics and Chemistry.
Keywords: relativistic mass, inertial mass, charge and symmetry gauge.
Title: MASS AND QUANTUM THEORY
Author: Francisco Martínez Flores.
International Journal of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-5736 (Online)
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