Energy in the Meta Model

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Does this energy content have a limiting series for the nth suborder and what might the total energy be? Or, does energy effectively increase without limit as we go to smaller scales?<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>

This is another example of an infinite series having a finite limit. Although the speed of particles gets faster at smaller scales, the mass gets smaller faster than the speed squared increases. So the total energy is probably of the same order as E = m * c^2. -|Tom|-

Similar to energy wouldn't the true mass of the body be slightly greater than the mass we measure on a scale when we release all the subparticles? Another interesting question is whether the mass discrepancy changes when we measure at different scales of size. For instance, is the true mass of a galaxy greater than we think it is since it is storing the binding energy of the difference between the mass of its constituents? Since we exist within a galaxy we do not observe such an effect around us because we are not observing at the right scale.

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Similar to energy wouldn't the true mass of the body be slightly greater than the mass we measure on a scale when we release all the subparticles?<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>

The mass of the sub-particles should already be included in whatever measures we make of larger particles. -|Tom|-