1. Apr 16, 2009 #1

   jostpuur

   

   Is it reasonable to suggest the possibility, that there could be a one field, whose first excitations would be the electrons, second the myons, and third the taus?

    

   jostpuur, Apr 16, 2009
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3. Apr 16, 2009 #2

   Vanadium 50

   

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   Why don't you have deexitations of the field like [itex]\mu \rightarrow e \gamma [/itex]?

    

   Vanadium 50, Apr 16, 2009
4. Apr 17, 2009 #3

   jostpuur

   

   The possible ways of decaying depend on the couplings to the other fields anyway.

    

   jostpuur, Apr 17, 2009
5. Apr 17, 2009 #4

   arivero

   

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   Historically it has been reasonable, but you expect then a whole tower of excitations. There is some literature, starting from Dirac membrane theory.

    

   arivero, Apr 17, 2009

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