Download or read book The Origin Of Discrete Particles written by Ted Bastin and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009-08-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique summary of the results of a long research project undertaken by the authors on discreteness in modern physics. In contrast with the usual expectation that discreteness is the result of mathematical tools for insertion into a continuous theory, this more basic treatment builds up the world from the discrimination of discrete entities. This gives an algebraic structure in which certain fixed numbers arise. As such, one agrees with the measured value of the fine-structure constant to one part in 10,000,000 (107).