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If particles like quarks and electrons get rest mass by interacting with electrically charged particles that fill space,we can imagine them being surrounded by a cloud of such mass-giving particles.Let's postulate that for a force carrier like a photon to exert a force on a quark,for example,the photon
collides with the mass-giving cloud and compresses it.The mass-giving particles will thus increase in density and the speed of them and the quark will increase.Also we would expect by relativity theory that the mass of the quark would increase i.e the smaller, denser cloud is associated with a greater mass (the length of the cloud will be inversely proportional to its mass under special relativity).A small clock placed in the cloud and moving with the cloud would be expected to run more slowly than a clock at rest
in some frame.Could the greater density of the mass-giving particles in the cloud be slowing the clock down somehow.If we think of a clock as being a photon bouncing between two mirrors, then the answer is surely yes,
because a greater number of mass-giving particles between the mirrors
would mean that the photon would be absorbed and scattered more times and so would take longer to travel from one mirror to the other.
collides with the mass-giving cloud and compresses it.The mass-giving particles will thus increase in density and the speed of them and the quark will increase.Also we would expect by relativity theory that the mass of the quark would increase i.e the smaller, denser cloud is associated with a greater mass (the length of the cloud will be inversely proportional to its mass under special relativity).A small clock placed in the cloud and moving with the cloud would be expected to run more slowly than a clock at rest
in some frame.Could the greater density of the mass-giving particles in the cloud be slowing the clock down somehow.If we think of a clock as being a photon bouncing between two mirrors, then the answer is surely yes,
because a greater number of mass-giving particles between the mirrors
would mean that the photon would be absorbed and scattered more times and so would take longer to travel from one mirror to the other.