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Relation between the Masses of Mesons

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STARTING from Jeannine Viard‘s results1 based on the notion of ‘solide principal' in wave-mechanics, and from Eddington‘s considerations on fundamental frames, we are in agreement with Mme. P. Destouches-Février‘s principle2 called the ‘principle of respective frames' : "All that concerns the actions of observers must be linked to a mean frame ; all that concerns the objective properties of particles must be linked to a geometrical frame". It results that the laws of direct action between electrons and photons or between nucleons and mesons, which are actions of contact according to Dirac‘s -function, appear for the observers to obey a Gaussian distribution law with standard deviation ; the self-energy of one particle in a field is then finite, is determined by the assumption that the mass of the electron originates entirely from an electromagnetic energy ; thence

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DESTOUCHES, JL. Relation between the Masses of Mesons. Nature 162, 451–452 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162451a0

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