Abstract
2012-12-12
A conceptual structure for understanding the physical universe based on two principles, three (new and tiny) entities, and three (new) interactions between the entities is offered. The principles, entities, and effects are explained. The effect directions and ranges and how those effects work and lead to the basic structures of matter and fields are shown. The many failures considered in the development of the mnp Model are also documented, both to support the effectiveness of the current conceptual structure and in hopes that others can critique and avoid the dead ends encountered.
The mnp Model is new and not new. “No one is thinking like this,” yet preon models were considered in the 1980's. String theory and quantum loop gravity have been seeking simplicity and descriptive power for some time. Poincaré's “New Mechanics” of 1905, often referred to as LET or Lorentz Ether Theory, is considered experimentally indistinguishable from Special Relativity though SR is currently preferred. The mnp Model contains interesting suggestions for many current puzzles but also challenges orthodoxy in many ways.
The conceptual structure is used to describe photons, charge, magnetism, electrons, and Dirac spin. The “hidden variable” in paired particles is explained. A structure is proposed for muons and small and large quarks. A reordering of generations of quarks is suggested.
The mnp Model suggests gravity results in a non-intuitive way from the tendency of the entities to align their direction of travel. Densities never become infinite. Light slows passing a mass for physical reasons, a longer path rather than a change in space. Particles in deep space may accelerate, black holes are porous but destroy “elementary” particles. Extra dimensions do not seem to be needed to explain current experiment.
Dark matter and energy are pictured as unorganized accumulations of the basic entities.
The photon of optics is shown as having structure, constantly creating magnetic and electric fields which then propagate and attenuate themselves. Those fields help organize the entities into a complete photon when it is first created. The electric and magnetic fields also influence (mostly subsequent) photons. Photons continue to create new fields as they travel.
Fields have no net translation or spin but do have structure, so do not affect or take energy from the particles that create them until a disturbance or measurement is made. Due to the stochastic nature of interactions in the mnp Model, the probabilistic nature of the fields and the location of the photon as described in QED are not supplanted. The mnp Model does provide descriptions of charge and electromagnetism that should eventually become visible and accessible to the merely gifted student. The author claims careful consideration of the double slit experiment led to this new structural image of the photon and its fields.
Time dilation is a function of the structure of matter and movement at all speeds. Length compression occurs as the coiled organization of basic entities reorganizes with velocity. The basic entities have a constant speed, so rest mass derives from rotating in place. Motion and kinetic energy arise from redirecting those entities, which at c no longer rotate and so have no “resting” mass. This differs, to the author's dismay, from modern descriptions of energy, momentum and mass. The Model's description of time dilation and length contraction are consistent with the Michelson-Morley experiments and the very precise successors, but suggest a non-relativistic interpretation. One way speed of light experiments, considered impossible by many, are not accurate enough to measure the tiny differences in the measured speed of light due to the earth's rotation and orbit expected by the Model.
The electron is described as a hollow surface with a single flat coiled filament made up of negative charge entities, with spin either right or left, capable of expanding in a shell, twisting into higher energy shells, responding to spin measurements, reverting quickly to a tiny sphere, and maintaining its unity at relativistic speeds.
The Model suggests that the basic structural unit of particles is a loop of charge material 1/6 of an elementary charge which combine as six loops into a strand with hexagonal cross section to form the structure of electrons, positrons, and the small quarks through strange. The unification of weak as complete charge loop exchange and strong as interrupted charge loop exchange leads to suggestions for left hand preference and up/down prevalence.
An appendix addresses many of the “unsolved problems in physics” with comments of varying quality, from interesting to wild guessing.
The Model is considered by the author to be almost complete in concept but to be lacking any proof of concept in the form of calculation and modeling. The documents are currently undergoing remodeling based on the new image of the effect leading to gravity, on the new image of the structure of electrons and the charge structure of quarks, on the new image of the unification of weak and strong forces, and on the change in the image of the basic structure of neutrinos. Gravity, electro-static, magnetic, electro-magnetic, weak, and strong forces are described. Residual Strong Force is still poorly understood. Tiny neutrinos remain a mystery.
The mnp Model does not yet include relative magnitudes of the forces or distances over which the three effects operate. The “size” or “mass” or “count” of figments need not be determined until the Model is complete and ready to be scaled to the real universe. The mnp Model insists that ALL distances of interaction will be small and ALL forces will act locally. Other models and theories of unification may benefit from the mnp Model's investigation of relevant phenomena and its structural explanations of perceived distance effects and spacial distortions.
Determining the details and magnitudes of the Computational mnp Model will take some time.
Thanks to the Giants
The author would like to thank the giants who have done so much careful experimentation and the giants who have worked to explain the experimental results and who have provided the vocabulary, grammar, and mathematics to describe those results. If the mnp Model cannot eventually confirm those experimental results and predict others, its conceptual beauty will be for naught.
The author, Gregg Hauser, can be contacted through the blog mnpmodel.blogspot.com or through gmail at mnpmodel