Electrons and Entropy: Is Mass an Electrical/Entropic Property? (part 2)

In an earlier writeup, I hypothesized that mass is a property related to entropy. I thought about the entropic properties of electrons and attempted an explanation centered around the electron's properties of random location/uncertainty.

The core idea was that creating/imposing order on an entropic system requires energy... and that mass is the manifestation of an entropy reversing energy requirement.

But then I wondered "What about protons and neutrons?" Why are they so much more massive than an electron?

And here's how I think it works...

Proton is composed of quarks? (no/maybe), electron is fundamental? (yes)

And here's the explanation I offer.

Remember that, according to quantum field theory, fundamental particles arise from disturbances/energy in the underlying field.

Equally important are the properties of the field. In this case, it's a field that can express a range of entropic states (from absolute entropy/no order at all to almost no entropy/absolute structure). It expresses these states proportionally to the amount of energy received by the field.

An electron is just a negative charge with relatively little structure. The order (ie. structure) is expressed over time. It's not much of a structure and is mathematically/theoretically described as a probability cloud. As such, the structural energy budget needed to produce an electron (mass 9.109 x 10-31) from the Quantum field is 0.511 MeV.

The proton is a much more highly defined structure with a much more ordered (spatially tightly defined) location... so this requires a lot more energy to manifest this increased order from the entropic quantum field.

Building order from the entropic Quantum Field requires energy.

Building one proton worth of order (1.6726 x 10-27) from the quantum field requires roughly 1800 times as much energy (938.28 MeV) as it does to produce an electron.

It doesn't matter if the proton itself is fundamental or made from quarks, the extra structure/order is proportional to the amount of energy needed to "build it" from disorder.

That's why an electron and proton can be equal but opposite in charge, yet be so different in terms of mass. It's due to the properties of the quantum field (tendency to higher entropy/disorder, responsive to energy).

Same goes for a neutron. My idea is that a neutron is actually a tightly coupled electron/proton pair. But even if it's composed of quarks, it's the level of structure, order and highly defined location that require more energy, and therefore more mass.

You could extrapolate the concept all the way up to a Black Hole. All it takes is for an incredibly large amount of energy to manifest an incredibly ordered particle (absolutely defined structure and an almost infinitely defined location ie. a point or singularity) from the quantum field. That much energy (equivalent to Mass) induces curvature into the EM and Quantum field (aka Spacetime). At the point where the curvature exceeds 360°, the event horizon begins. Simple and no need/rationale for things like the Higgs Boson.

And if you like, I have an electron based explanation of how radioactive decay works.

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