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The New UniverseThe picture we have elaborated above is a marked departure from the standard model (the "Big Bang") propagated by physicists working at the forefront of the field. Rather than a model in which the universe cooled from a 10-dimensional soup of super-heated particles, we imagine a universe in which physics begins in 1-dimension. Our three-dimensional space is formed through composition of three such dimensions. Since there should be time in each of the three composed dimensions, we expect that the structure of time in our universe should be more complex than is expected in the Big Bang. In the standard model, all the fundamental particles are indeed fundamental - and there are many more of them still tto be observed. In our new universe, the fundamental particles are presumed to be composites of more primitive structures. The properties of color and charge are related: charge projects along a spatial dimension, and color occurs when the charge configuration does not project into all three dimensions. Therefore, the leptons, with charge zero or three, are much lighter than the quarks, with charge one or two. This model, while not yet mathematically ramified, appears to qualify over the Standard Model using Occam's razor: it requires many fewer constructs than are demanded by the Super String model. The fact that the intrinsic spin of the known particles is the same for all charge states implies that charge might be separable from spin. This allows the possibility that like-charged particles might resonate over long distances, and through time in ways that could lead to a coherent philosphy of quantum mechanics. Charges are the means through which particles negotiate the interactions, so it would appear that they correspond to the quantum-mechanical "waves", while spin, energy and mass correspond to the dual "particle". As a side note: Einstein may have been right. Gravity and electromagentism may be a unified force. In the next section, we revisit simultaneity and outline a gedanken which suggests there could be more to physics at near-light speeds than we currently visualize. Because mass is a function of charge configuration, it might be that gravity is a residual of the electro/color force in neutral configurations of matter. And finally, the reader might be amused to ponder whether there might be stable configurations of physics in dimensionalities less than or greater than three. In other words: why couldn't there be physics in planes (2-dimensions)? If two-dimensional constructs couple weakly to 3-dimensional constructs, we might never know. Although - could the neutrino, the most weakly coupled of the known particles, actually be a two-dimensional construct? And what about 4-dimensions? 5? 6? I will elaborate upon this picture in our discussion of spirituality. |
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