Masons are reported to be made of a quark and an antiquark both with fractional charges, net charge integer or zero. None of the masons are found to have fractional charges. All the large variety of mesons are unstable and decay into a large number of charged or neutral particles. None of the decay products are found to have fractional charges.
In other threads I have suggested some quantum state of vacuum space might prevent mesons from having fractional charges and fractional charged decay products.
It seems unlikely that in such a large array of mesons and decay products that a large set of exclusion rules could prevent free fractional charges without exception.
On the other hand in vacuum space a single exclusion rule could prevent all of the free fractional charges.
Much explanation is given of strong force and gluons, virtual gluons, and other devices to explain exclusion of separated fractional charges. It doesn't explain why strong force should be concerned with electric charges.
Why Does Mason Decay Never Produce Fractional Charged Particles?
dear Igael,
I feel that the standard explanation is correct and successful but not sufficiently explained.
The unstable mesons remove most of the unnecessary topics of protons and neutrons and leave a fairly clean question of decay in vacuum space.
"Only neutral color is "detectable" and neutral is here the analog of integer values of charge." All possibilities occur eventually, so the forbidden observations are prevented physically.
Flavors and colors are used to make a system because something substantial, but unfamiliar is there that researchers have no better way to describe. Maybe it is time to start trying to describe the underlying physical make up. Quantum states seem to be involved both in the permissions and in the exclusions. A set of properties is required to receive a permission.
For vacuum space the deep space transport potential depends on gaining a better understanding of vacuum space and how it interacts with passing objects, allowing some events and excluding others.
One possibility for a particle in a box is the energy barrier is not only very high but also the low energy out side region may be far away or nonexistent for some particles.
If space quantum state does not accommodate fractional charges, space quantum state also might not accommodate quark colors other than neutral. The two limitations seem to go together. Also the particle in a box argument applies to both.
In either case an idea can be put forward that properties of vacuum in present quantum state may generate the exclusion rules. At other states in big bang and maybe locally at extreme high speed, the exclusions might not apply. If so the deep space traveler might encounter free quarks of quantum colors and fractional charges. In that case the deeper physical meaning of quantum color and charge could be discovered.
In other threads the discussion occurred for possibility that natural laws reside in vacuum space and are enforced by vacuum energy. The energy in space is argued to be large but finite and balanced in curvature types to give a small cosmological constant. In this context the vacuum energy is fully committed to enforcing the laws, and well capable of upholding exclusion rules.
Finite is suggesting limitations and possible conditions in which the laws might be different or less well expressed in events.
Dear Jerry,
Your question points at the problem: If "quarks" would really exist then we would observe many particles with fractional charges. It is implausible that "quarks" only combine by the rules of the theory.
Is there any evidence of quarks? No! This particles are results of thought processes and theoretical considerations. The discovery of three sub-particles within protons was the apperent prove of quarks (about 1964). But if you analyse the interactions of protons you can see that they consist of three real and well known particles. It is very strange that physics used its own requested particles and does not know what to do with the observed real particles.
We should consider the non-existence of this particles and return to the ground of the facts.
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Three high energy laboratories at CERN and Brookhaven have reported and confirmed a new state of matter quark-gluon plasma since 2000.
It tends to agree with the possibility of travelers encountering decontainment at extreme high speed in deep space.
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