Permeability and Permittivity of Free space versus particules

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Permittivity and permeability are defined for continuous media, making it challenging to apply these concepts to individual particles like electrons, protons, or neutrons. Current understanding does not provide material properties for standalone particles, and attempts to model them as spheres with higher permittivity have limitations. Any model would need to maintain a constant impedance while allowing for a decrease in the speed of light. The idea of viewing particles as local increases in spatial density presents an intriguing perspective. Overall, the connection between these fundamental properties and atomic structures remains largely unexplored.
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We know for sure €0 and µ0 for free space.
We know as well €r and µr for material
Have theses values been calculated for stand alone particles like an electron, a proton or a neutron?
Have somebody then connected theses values to an atom (of hydrogen for example) which is a combination of moving particules an free space ?

Can anybody help?
 
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Permittivity and permeability are properties of continuous media. A single atom is not a continuous medium. What you want doesn't exist.
 
No one knows what an electron is, let alone any material properties. I've seen people try to assign a higher permittivity to a sphere as a model. If I were to try such a model, I'd increase both permittivity and permeability proportionately so that Z is constant and c decreases. You could then view particles as local increases in space "density". In fact, it would be interesting to derive the radial dependency required to make an em wave "orbit" such a sphere.
 
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