Reply To: minimal size device for focus fusion to work?

[Steven Sesselmann]

vansig wrote: If everything were imploding, then symmetry-breaking would result in atoms of the same kind having different size. This is not observed.

Exactly, thanks for asking this question, why all protons/electrons are the same size ?

After thinking about this problem, I realized they are not of the same size or the same mass, but exist around us in every variation!

Only when we arm wrestle protons into our laboratory and measure them a ground potential do they have the same mass. Those particles that are not “here” at rest in our laboratory, do not have the same mass with respect to us. Protons in the distance, protons in a gravitational field, protons moving at high velocities all have relativistic mass.

Term rest mass defines the mass when measured at ground potential only, relativistic mass when measured else where.

Steven