From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2008 - 13:44:40 MDT
--- Damien Broderick <thespike@satx.rr.com> wrote:
> At 04:38 PM 3/21/2008 -0700, Matt Mahoney wrote:
>
> >Anyway, maybe it's not interesting to you that a bit is the size of the
> >smallest stable particle [the proton]
>
> An electron is much smaller and more stable (on current models), and
> besides, the proton isn't an elementary particle, it's a mess of
> particles waiting patiently to decay.
An electron is larger (size ~ h/mc).
-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com
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