Chapter 18
Unification of the Four Forces
Currently, the standard model in physics proposes there are four fundamental forces in nature, namely: the strong force, the weak force, gravity, and electromagnetism. Despite much effort, it has been unable to find a common idea to unify them other than its initial attempt some years ago at consolidating the weak force and electromagnetism into what it calls the electroweak force. Regardless, the quest continues, and many refer to it as the holy grail of physics.
Now SED proposes a new theory that reduces them to one, electromagnetic. The others are merely a consequence or special case of this all-encompassing single force.
This section provides an outline of the current status and SED’s rationale for this union. There will inevitably be some repetition of material here, because it is not possible to consolidate these ideas into such an important topic without doing so. I will minimise this as much as possible, so please excuse it and read on.
What is the strong force?
We saw in a previous section on the atom, how electromagnetism can become a gigantic force inside the tiny nucleus of an atom. Here nucleons, which basically are just highly dynamic fields, are attracted strongly to each other when they are momentarily extremely close and almost touching. These fields are several million times larger than those in an electron. This enormous attractive force holds the nucleons together despite their great kinetic energy and tiny size. Our model can guide us here and reveal the significance of what SED refers to as equals attracting, for the concept of charge is more elusive inside a nucleus than we may have previously realised. It shows us that, at this short-range, there is no need for a separate and artificial entity called the strong force. It is simply electromagnetism acting alone and in a different environment than what we are familiar with, but it is still the same physics.
We must first understand the geometry, structure and scale of a nucleus, to appreciate these ideas. Nucleons are formed from a pair of virtual rotons lying on two hemispherical shells, joined at their crossovers or nodes. Protons have these shells back-to-back in the same plane, while neutrons have one shell rotated a quarter of a turn, until they are orthogonal (See Figs 21 & 22, in the section on the atom above). These two different structures produce multiple bonding sites this way, when the attraction is momentarily at a maximum holding the nucleons tightly together.
We also saw earlier in the two sections on the electron and the atom, how SED was able to calculate the magnitudes of the E-M fields in electrons and nucleons using a little known but important constant called the magnetic flux constant. We found then that because both protons and neutrons are just under 2000 times smaller than an electron (i.e. more massive), their E-M fields are about 4 million times larger. This means that E-M forces in the nucleus are furthermore 4 million times bigger than those for electrons outside it. That is why it is such a strong force.
Remember charge is always a constant. It is the ratio of force to field.
All nucleons are only fields or rotons and all about the same size, so when their separation is around this same amount, a peak of field in one can almost touch the corresponding peak in another. When their fields are equal, meaning they share the same direction and size, they can align in space and create an extremely strong but momentary attraction. We discussed this further in the previous section on the atom. Due to their high energy and frequency, this happens often. And because they are very close, this gigantic force operates on a distance scale far smaller than electron charge does. That is why conventional charge is not as important inside a nucleus, where this field sharing aspect of electromagnetism dominates, moment by moment. This is additionally the reason why the so-called strong force is short ranged: it is simply a matter of scale and geometry within the roton.
Physics shows that, to approach each other this way, two rotating objects must spin in opposite directions, otherwise their closest points of contact are moving against each other, like the edges of two equally spinning tops, spinning past each other, but when they touch they are spinning in opposite directions. For nucleons, this is forbidden because the relative speed of light at their nearest points of contact would exceed c. To avoid this, one particle’s loop must spin clockwise and the other anticlockwise, or as we also say spin up and spin down, so that where they nearly touch, the comparative speed is zero and in the same direction. This is the basis of the Pauli exclusion principle when two particles can share the same set of quantum numbers provided they have opposite spin. Our model shows how this can be achieved.
Figure 37 – Zoomed-in view of two nucleons with opposite spin. When two different loops are close to each other and have equal fields, they attract with an enormous force. Their spins must be parallel to avoid conflicts with relativity.
This behaviour is very short-range and extraordinarily strong, created by both enormous electric and magnetic forces that are the result of huge fields[1], pulling the particles together and balanced by their rotational or centripetal kinetic energy. Normal electric charge is only significant in the largest nuclei when its cumulative effect can become more pronounced due to the greater separation.
SED shows how all nucleons are attracted to one another at short-range, purely by the E-M force. Protons and neutrons alike, moving at overall speeds approaching light, in the high energy environment of the nucleus. Their large fields rise and fall sinusoidally, but when equal and close, can provide the great strength required to form a nucleus and hold its particles together to build an atom.
SED maintains that the reason why leptons do not participate in what is called the strong force is simply structural. Their much larger wavelength and lower energy prevents them from closely approaching nucleons and interacting this way. Normally an electron can get no closer to a proton than fine structure allows, an enormous distance compared to nucleons. However in some cases and if given sufficient kinetic energy, an electron can be absorbed by a proton to form a [2]neutron. Usually though electrons exist as larger rotons in the space surrounding the nucleus and are attracted to it only by the much weaker manifestation of the E-M force, opposite charge ,as we have previously understood it in experiments like Millikan’s.
What is the weak force?
Like the strong force, physics had no clear explanation for the mechanism of what it called the weak force. It was conceived as an attempt to explain certain interactions such as radioactive decay and specifically the conversion of particles like neutrons into protons and vice versa. Now it additionally claims it is the weak force that converts quarks into different flavours using esoteric ideas involving charged bosons[3] with enormous masses and other bazar concepts like weak isospin and hypercharge. Such concepts were devised and for some reason gradually accepted as the conjecture grew more and more complex. As we said above, modern versions of this theory now incorporate electromagnetism and then refer to it as the electroweak force in an attempt at unification.
Nevertheless, we have seen how SED describes the transformation of one type of nucleon into another, without the need for the concept of a weak force or quarks. In a manner similar to a chemical reaction, this basically involves the conversion of solitons into a new and separate structure, using the ideas of quantum physics and the uncertainty principle. Always involving external exchanges from particles such as those with leptons and photons, these reactions produce a different type of nucleon, and they are also reversible. Charge and energy is transferred between the components and normal conservation laws are always obeyed. Neutrinos provide the necessary unit of angular momentum or h, required to keep total spin balanced before and after the process.
In conclusion, the weak force as it is named could now be irrelevant because it is only an interaction and not a force, for it has no mechanism that can be referred to as attraction or repulsion. A force, by definition, must have this.
What is gravity?
There has been a whole section written earlier in this book about this subject, and therefore we need not repeat it all again here. Suffice to say that mankind has marvelled for millennia at the fact that everything is pulled down on the earth. But why? What is it that all objects share and makes them fall? What holds the galaxies together? Newton himself was unable to provide an answer. He could only describe it mathematically.
SED believes it finally has the answer, and it is simple. Simple geometry creates gravity due to the structure of the roton and the fact that the roton exists in every particle of matter, giving them mass. This mass comes about because the opposite magnetic fields in each loop bend and pull them together, compressing the space in between. This has a very small yet cumulative effect linking every single particle throughout the universe. However it is really only portrayed in larger objects like planets, stars and galaxies, that have many rotons. It is intimately connected with inertia or resistance to a change in motion, but it manifests in everything everywhere and is always attractive.
The four forces
In summary, this is SED’s position on the unification of these four forces:
1. E-M
This is the only truly unique and fundamental force in the universe and is the direct consequence of E-M fields. These fields create everything.
2. Gravity
Over one hundred years ago, when Einstein wrote his theory of general relativity, we learnt that matter curves and distorts space. SED shows how this happens structurally during the formation of matter, because space can be compressed when rotons are formed from two-dimensional energy in flat space. This is supersymmetry or the conversion of bosons into fermions.
Like flapping butterfly wings that compress the air between them, the curved loops in rotons use magnetism to pull the flat space of energy into a compacted three-dimensional soliton that has inertia and consequently portrays mass by virtue of the energy it stores. This energy is proportional to the frequency of its spin through Planck’s constant. And so, when two material objects exist in space, we can see why they are attracted towards each other. As if they are in a web, the shortest distance or geodesic line between them is compacted and shortened slightly by the presence of mass at each end which compresses the space there. This creates a straight-line attraction. Larger objects like planets, stars and galaxies contain many more fundamental particles and increase this effect, until we can observe what is called gravity. This is not a separate force, but a geometric aspect showing how the fields of electromagnetism influence space. Matter pulls space in, from all directions, compressing it.
The law of gravity, SED contends, is really just a consequence of this E-M force, mathematically expressed. Gravity in itself is not a force. It is directly related to the number of particles that contribute to this compression (i.e. their combined masses), and inversely proportional to distance squared between them (like light intensity and area of interaction). Note: The proportionality constant for gravity is related directly to the masses involved and is not a type of charge. Being geometric, it is therefore a very much weaker effect than the primary E-M force that created it. A force involving only fields.
3. Strong
We have seen how SED contends this is not a separate force, but wholly attributable to the huge E-M force produced by pairs of particles operating in the tiny confines of the nucleus. These enormous fields interact strongly and make nuclear properties possible and hold the nucleus together.
4. Weak
The so-called weak force is the least understood. Its origin is vague, being primarily an interaction rather than actually a force with a clear mathematical description, for it portrays neither attraction nor repulsion. It is involved in the mechanism for transformation of nuclei and is possibly associated with neutrinos. There have been recent attempts to align it with electromagnetism forming the electroweak force. SED proposes it is a type of reaction, and we should no longer consider it a separate force, but merely another process based entirely on electromagnetism.
Is this a unification of the four forces that physics has for so long tried to discover? It could be. One process or set of phenomena seen differently from different perspectives, that with deeper insight and observation is found to have a common underlying cause – Electromagnetic fields. Something this book has endeavoured to show from the outset.
[1] Their fields are millions of times stronger than those in an electron. The electric field is much larger than the magnetic field. Their ratio is c, the speed of light
[2] This can also be reversed in beta decay when an electron is released from a neutron.
[3] SED says bosons are two dimensional and have neither mass nor charge. They also have a spin of h.
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