Research on the internal structure of subatomic particles has been ongoing since the early days of particle accelerators and cosmic ray experiments, and there are several points of view that merit study. The view promoted here has not much new, and should sound familiar. The very stable proton, as CERN would agree, is a worthy starting point.<\/p>\n
First of all, \u201cthere is no hard core<\/em> to the proton. \u2026 It could be like jelly, or it could be like a strawberry, with seeds scattered throughout, but no accumulation<\/em> of them at the centre.\u201d When scattering e–<\/sup> + p is elastic, the resulting Bjorken scaling \u201cis interpreted as indicating that the scattering takes place off point like constituents of the proton, called partons.\u201d, where \u201cthe structure factors are functions of \u03c9 only.\u201d ([1], pgs 16-18).<\/p>\n Since \u201cq is the photon 4-momentum\u201d, for \u201can individual parton of mass m\u201d we can use the relativistic mass of the graviton, mg<\/sub> = 5.575 x 10-28<\/sup> kg [2], in which case the dimensionless \u03c9 = (2M\u03bd)\/q2<\/sup>, with q2<\/sup> = 2m\u03bd ([1], pg 17), gives \u03c9 = mp<\/sub>\/mg<\/sub> = 3.<\/p>\n One may think of the internal structure of the proton as a crystal lattice, with nodes, or partons, that are basically zero points of eigenvectors, where internal and pass through wave functions add or subtract momentum. If you are a string theorist, added head to tail you may choose to look at the vector structure as vibrating strings. If you have a Mechanical or Civil engineering degree you may think of the structure as finite elements, \u2013 not necessarily tetrahedral however. The nodes are the seeds of Ryder\u2019s strawberry.<\/p>\n The defined boundary of a subatomic particle results from gravitational pressure at its barrier domain. Let us view then the particle as a wave packet \u201cwhen the wave packet is subject to the influence of a parabolic potential. Physically, this result arises from the fact that the tendency of the wave packet to spread is compensated by the potential, whose effect is to push the wave packet towards the origin from regions where V(x) is large.\u201d ([3], Compl. Gv<\/sub>, 3.c., pg 572) Due to gravitational pressure, V(x) would be large at the barrier domain of the particle. With consistent frequency, \u03c9g<\/sub> = 4.75 x 1023<\/sup> rad. sec-1<\/sup> [2], gravitons step through the barrier easily.<\/p>\n Baryons and fermions would be similar in structure, though differing greatly in density. Scattering can happen through barrier elasticity or partial penetration with node to node scattering. Deeper node penetration on a large nucleus can result in alpha decay.<\/p>\n