From this we can find out what the 3 remaining particle quanta may be by consider the phenomenon of free neutron decay, in which a neutron, removed from an atomic nucleus, decays into a proton, an electron and a neutrino within about 15 minutes.
Free neutron decay
One way of interpreting this is to assume that an electron consists of a single negative quantum, and the neutrino is an assembly of one negative and one positive quantum. However, the electron is generally understood to be larger than a neutrino. It's therefore logical to conclude that the electron is constituted of 3 particle quanta: 2 negative and 1 positive. The neutrino becomes in this way something separate from the original assembly. It must have come from the aether rather than the neutron. Being smaller than the electron, we can conclude that the neutrino must be a single neutral quantum.
We can further concluded that the neutron is not a fundamental particle, but an assembly of 1 proton and 1 electron. This assembly is only stable inside the atomic nucleus. This in turn leaves us with three stable particles. They are:
- The proton
- The electron
- The neutrino
Left unaccounted for, we have the photon. However, once we consider the phenomenon of electron-positron pair production in light of what we have calculated so far, the constituent parts of the photon comes out clearly defined.
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