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The truly elementary mass seems to be the Planck mass which is much larger than the masses of the particles that we see in nature.
Maybe what we think of as elementary particles are actually just quasi-particles, excitations of the underlying space-time (like phonons are quantised vibrations in a crystal lattice)?
I guess there are quantum gravity researchers working on ideas like this.
Maybe what we think of as elementary particles are actually just quasi-particles, excitations of the underlying space-time (like phonons are quantised vibrations in a crystal lattice)?
I guess there are quantum gravity researchers working on ideas like this.
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