2001/09/07 by Meng Ta-chung, Ta-chung, Meng
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0109065
14 pages, including 1 figure
arxiv created 2001/09/07 · openalex publication_date 2001/09/07 · arxiv updated 2016/09/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The electron, which has been pictured as an elementary particle ever since J.J. Thomson's e/m-measurement in 1897, and the relativistic motion of which is described by the Dirac equation, is discussed in the light of the recent progress made in Science of Complex Systems. Theoretical arguments and experimental evidences are presented which show that such an electron exhibits characteristic properties of spatiotemporal complexities due to Self-Organized Criticality (SOC). This implies in particular that, conceptually and logically, it is neither possible nor meaningful to identify such an object with an ordinary particle, which by definition is something that has a fixed mass (size), a fixed lifetime, and a fixed structure.