Contents -- Preface: The Training of an Elementary Particle Phenomenologist -- List of Figures -- 0. A Pictorial Journey through the Landscape of -Quantized Elementary Particle Lifetimes and Masses -- 0.1 The Experimental Journey -- 0.2 Global Lifetime -Quantization -- 0.3 Unpaired-Quark Lifetime Hyper ne (HF) Structure -- 0.4 The 4 "Lifetime Desert" between Unpaired and Paired Quark Decays -- 0.5 Two mass leaps: the mb= 70 meV and mf=105 meV basis states -- 0.6 The Spin-1/2 Standard Model q (u -- d) -- s -- c -- b \Muon" Constituent Quarks -- 0.7 The Spin-0 Generic "Pion" Constituent Quarks -- 0.8 The Relativistically Spinning Sphere and the mf/mb = 3/2 Mass Ratio -- 0.9 The MX Threshold-State Particle Excitation Mechanism -- 0.10 An mass leap: the q = 43,182 mev basic set for the w , z gauge bosons and top quark t -- 0.11 Mathological Studies of Elementary Particle Spectroscopy -- 1. Lifetime and Mass -Quantization: Physics Beyond the Paradigm -- 1.1 The Missing Elementary Particle Ground State and Its Mass Generator -- 1.2 The Particle Mass Mystery: Physics from the Higgs Down or the Bottom Up? -- 1.3 The Double Mystery of the Fine Structure Constant = e2/ c -- 1.4 The Dichotomy of Leptons and Hadrons: Interactive Charges and Passive Masses -- 1.5 Experiment, Phenomenology, Theory: The Three Steps to Success -- 1.6 The Review of Particle Physics (RPP) Elementary Particle Data Base -- 1.7 The Linkage Between Particle Lifetimes/Widths (Stability) and Particle Masses (Structure) -- 1.8 The Numerical Challenge of the Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio -- 2. The Phenomenology of -Quantized Particle Lifetimes and Mass-Widths -- 2.1 The Zeptosecond Boundary between Threshold-State and Excited-State Lifetimes -- 2.2 The Nonstrange +, Ps meson quintet: the crow "jewels" of lifetime -quantization.

2.3 The Strange K+, K-,klo, Kso meson quartet: scaling and factor of 2 hyperfine (HF) structure -- 2.4 The PS Meson Lifetime Nonet: Physics Outside of the Standard Model -- 2.5 Hyperfine (HF) Factor-of-2 and Factor-of-3 Lifetime Structure -- 2.6 The -Quantization of the 36 Long-Lived Threshold-State Particle Lifetimes -- 2.7 The s, c, b Quark Group Structure in -Quantized Particle Lifetimes -- 2.8 Factor of 4 Lifetime Ratios between Unpaired and Paired Quark Decays -- 2.9 The b-Quark and c-Quark Factor-of-3 Lifetime Flavor Structure -- 2.10 Flavor Substitutions and c > b > s Flavor Dominance in Unpaired-Quark Decays -- 2.11 The Historical Emergence of -Quantized Elementary Particle Lifetimes -- 3. The Phenomenology of Reciprocal -- 3.1 What Are the Elementary Particle Lepton and Hadron "Ground States"? -- 3.2 The Correlation between Particle Mass-Widths and Particle Masses -- 3.3 Electrons, Muons and Pions: The "Rosetta Stones" of -Quantized Masses -- 3.4 The First-Order mb = 70 MeV Boson and mf = 105 MeV Fermion " -Leap" Masses -- 3.5 Symmetric (M , M , M ) and Asymmetric (MK, K, M , ) "Platform" States -- 3.6 The Spin and Flavor Hierarchy of the MX Platform Excitations -- 3.7 The M ( , , 0) Boson MX Tower: The "Crown Jewels" of -Quantized Masses -- 3.8 The M ( -- p p -- ) Fermion MX Tower -- 3.9 The "Supersymmetric" 420 MeV Excitation Quantum X = 3mb mb = 2m fmf -- 3.10 The Strange MK (K, ) Boson MX Excitations and the 0 = K Bound State -- 3.11 The Strange M (s, s) Fermion MX Excitations: s and s Quarks -- 3.12 The Strange M ( ) Vector Boson MX Excitation: The = s s Bound State -- 3.13 The Fundamental "MX Octet" of Threshold-State Particles -- 3.14 Isotopic Spin Mass Splittings and Charge-Independent (CI) Particle Masses -- 3.15 Hadronic Binding Energy (HBE) Systematics -- 3.16 Almost-Parameter-Free MX Octet Mass Calculations.

3.17 The M ( -- J= -- ) = (s s -- c c -- b b) Vector Meson MT Mass-Tripling Tower -- 3.18 Charge Exchange (CX) and Fragmentation (CF) Excitations and Proton Stability -- 3.19 Excitation Doubling and the W and Z Vector Mesons -- 3.20 The Second-Order fermion mass leap to the W and Z bosons and top quark t -- 3.21 The PS Lifetime and Mass Nonet: Physics Outside of the Standard Model -- 3.22 Examples of Reciprocal -Quantized Lifetimes and Masses -- 3.23 The q, s, c, b Quark Benchmark Test: Calculate 16 Unpaired-Quark Ground States -- 3.24 The Short-Lived Excited-State Masses: Evidence from Excitation Clusters -- 3.25 Muon (Fermion) Masses and Quarks -- Pion (Boson) Masses and Generic Quarks -- Superheavy Muon -Quark Masses -- 3.26 Evidence for the s = 595 MeV Strange Quark Excited State -- 3.27 The Universal 35 MeV Mass Grid -- 3.28 Mass Freedom in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) -- 4. The Mathology of the Elementary Particle: The Relativistically Spinning Sphere -- 4.1 Introduction to Mathology -- 4.2 The Most Accurate Example of Mathology: Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) -- 4.3 The Mechanical Mathology of Relativistically Spinning Spherical Masses -- 4.4 The Spectroscopic Mathology of the Electron: A Classical Representation Does Exist -- 4.5 The Vanishing Electric Quadrupole Moment of the Electron -- 4.6 The Physical Basis for the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Electron: The Answer to Richard Feynman's Challenge for a First-Order Model -- 4.7 The Relativistic Transformation Properties of the Mathological Electron: Correct Transformations Occur only at the Rotational Relativistic Limit -- 5. The Mathology of Particle Waves: The Particle-Hole Pair -- 5.1 The Mathology of the Electron Phase Wave -- 5.2 The Mathology of Particle-Hole Pairs: Zerons and Photons -- 5.3 The Mathology of QED Renormalization: Bare Masses as "Hole" States.

5.4 Vacuum-State Zero-Point Fluctuations as Energy-Conserving Particle-Hole Pairs -- 6. The Mathology of the Fine Structure Constant = e2=~c -- 6.1 The Mystery of the Numerical Value = 1/137 -- 6.2 The Phase Transitions 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 e, , q, of the Mass Generator -- 6.3 Three Configurations of the Multiform Electric Charge e -- 7. Ramifications -- 7.1 Cosmological Masses -- 7.2 The "Mechanical" Mass of the Elementary Particle -- 7.3 Three Deficiencies in the Standard Model Treatment of Particle Masses -- Postscript: The Saga of the mb = 70 MeV and mf = 105 MeV Mass Quanta -- A. The History of the 70 MeV Mass Quantum mb -- B. The History of the 105 MeV Mass Quantum m -- Appendices -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index.