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Journal of Modern Physics, 2010, 1, 300-302 doi:10.4236/jmp.2010.15042 Published Online November 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jmp) Calculation of the Masses of All Fundamental Elementary Particles with an Accuracy of Approx. 1% Karl Otto Greulich Fritz Lipmann Institute Beutenbergstr. 11 D 07745 Jena, Germany E-mail: kog@fli-leibniz.de Received August 9, 2010; revised September 14, 2010; accepted September 29, 2010 Abstract The masses of a l l fundamental elementary particles (those with a lifetime 10 sec) can be calculated with -24 an inaccuracy of approx. 1% using the equation m/m electron = N/2α where α is the coupling constant of quan- tum electrodynamics (also known as fine structure constant) (= 1/137.036), and N is an integer variable. This is the by far most accurate and most comprehensive approach to calculate the particle masses. Keywords: Particle Masses, Fine Structure Constant 1. Introduction for the light particles [5]. While theories of elementary particles are accurate in determining decay channels and finding particle-multiplets, calculation of particle masses is less successful. The reason is that the masses of the constituting quarks can- not be simply added up — binding energies need to be considered which often exceed quark masses considera- bly. A comprehensive theory on particle masses is not available. Occasionally, the mass of one given elemen- tary particle is predicted by a theory, but an accuracy in the 10% regime is considered already as satisfying. Bet- ter accuracies are only achieved when a theory is re- stricted to subsets of the elementary particles, for exam- ple the octet of mesons (the two pions and the four kaons) or the decuplet of baryons (delta, sigma xi, omega). Very good mass predictions have been obtained for the proton and its excited states. A quark model with one-gluon- exchange gives an accuracy of 5.6% [1], an alternative model using