Talk:Proton

Interesting fact: the ratio of the mass of the proton to the mass of the electron is to 2 parts in 100000 equal to 6*pi^5.

No? Well, items relating proton mass to Britney Spears are pretty short on the ground. I guess the fact that the product of the electrical permitivity and magnetic permeability of free space were very close [within experimental precision equal to] to the reciprocal of the square of the speed of light is also exceedingly boring. Except that the notorious crank Maxwell based electromagnetic field theory from this observation. So if the almost non-mentioned fact that the mass of the proton to the electron is to a high degree of precision a simple multiple of a simple power of pi doesn't spark some degree of interest in you, then I guess you're just not cut out to be a physicist. :-)

Roadrunner is correct, and I'm afraid you, 81.86.154.69, are not. Playing with things like N*pi^M, or change pi for e, or whatever, you can get almost any number. This has nothing to do with Maxwell's observation for the "product of the ...", because indeed it is not true, Maxwell was not doing numerology (as you are doing), he explicitly calculated the speed of an electromagnetic wave (= 1/sqrt(mu * epsilon) ) and compared it with the speed of light.

Moreover, today we know that protons are made of quarks, and that their mass is not the sum of the masses of the three quarks, because the binding energy amounts for a lot more. So there is, no relationship foreseen whatsoever.

JBC[?]