Drakkith, I guess you are right. I've read the forum rules carefully, and see that there is a special section for the non-mainstream physics discussions. I find it very interesting. Thank you!
Sorry for incorrect spelling of Feynman's name, its because all the books of Feynman I've read were in Russian.
Can you explain why or give any reference to other sources? I would appreciate this.
ok, I agree on that. I will reformulate my question:
As Bill_K said, "First family is composed of electron (-1) plus up three up-quarks (3*(2/3) = 2) plus three down-quarks (3*(-1/3) = -1), which adds up to zero."
Does it mean that all particles from the first family are matter particles...
Its not about changing the name. Just imagine the following picture:
The Big Bang (or whatever it was) creates equal number of matter and antimatter. Say, matter is negatively charged, and antimatter is charged positively.
My point is that for some reason after the Big Bang matter...
well, it depends on what you mean by mass. It's a different topic, of course, but let me remind you only one thing: in Dirac theory an electron is always moving at the speed of light. But since its path is not a straight line, but an oscillating curve, "on average" it is moving slower than speed...
Good, very good. But that's a different question leading to different physics! I don't know the answer, but I feel that it is somehow related to direction of time.
I see that you understand my point now.
It does matter how we call it, because when we talk about matter/antimatter imbalance, it is means that "there are more matter than antimatter". This is because we consider both e- and p+ as matter. If we will consider e- as matter and p+ as antimatter, then there will be no imbalance.
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That's an interesting model, mathman. I also have an idea about all this, but this idea resulted from my recent attempts to develop the correct model of electron. In this model an electron is not a point-like particle, but spatial distribution of charge and flux densities. It is interesting that...
For simplicity, let's say that first family is composed of electron (-1) and proton (+1), so that total charge is zero and anomalies can be cancelled. Does it mean that all particles from the first family are matter particles? Is there any physically grounded definition of matter and antimatter...