Rest masses of elementary particles as basic information of Gibbs-Falkian thermodynamics

As developed by G. Falk (Following J.W. Gibbs), methods of modern thermodynamics allow by means of the Einstein mechanics to describe as well energy-momentum transports (EMT) which occur under vacuum conditions. Such EMT relations are proved to manifest a set of elementary particles which in its entirety determines real state changes of fluids on the macro-level. EMT differ from each other by their masses at rest (m(#)) resulting as integration constant each. In order to identify m(#), Seelig has established a new theory whose physical background is de Broglie's mechanics of matter waves. Seelig's results stand out without exception by their excellent agreement with a lot of measured m(#) values of elementary particles. Strikingly, the structure of the Seelig equation even permits for an extension upon particles hjtherto outside Seelig's approach. This new semi-empirical mass formula agrees with the experimental m(#) values of all known stabile elementary particles better than 0.085 % on weighted average. The formula has some outstanding properties leading to some remarkable conclusions on Higgs particles and allowing predictions of particles hitherto unknown. Thus, a new key to a uniform understanding of real processes in physics, e.g., in thermal sciences, is now at hand. matter is realized on the micro-level by a finite number of particle classes which are subject to well-posed constraints holding on macro-level for the physical system in question. (C) 2000 Editions scientifiques et medicates Elsevier SAS.