On Feb 11, 4:37*am, (oldcoot) wrote:
AA wrote, reposting "~BG":

Why can't an electron be a BH * * * * * * singularity?
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Wheeler thought it was.

More realistically, the proton as a 'point particle' would be the analog
of a BH. Contrast this with the electron's being pictured as an
encircling cloud or 'shell' and an orbital of the central proton, as in
the H atom.


The big mystery to me is why the masses of protons are always the
same, and the same with electrons, and the ratio of their masses is
always the same, at least as close as we can measure.

My suspicion is that there might be slight differences based upon the
absorption and emmision of photons, but that some process makes them
tend towards a certain mass.

Double-A