Field Theory

Last modified: 2008-08-12 13:04:56 UTC

© 2008 Charles L. Chandler

 

This is an idea that has always intrigued me, and that I'd like to develop, not because I'm a physicist or because I think that I have the remotest chance of actually understanding any of this, but just because I think that it's a cool idea.

I'm not really sure how this idea would be similar or different when compared to other theories, such as Quantum Field Theory, the Wave Structure of Matter, etc. I don't even know if this is a new idea. I'm using the term "Field Theory" just because at present, I don't know what else to call it. Once I get deeper into this, if there's still an idea here, I'll re-evaluate the name, and probably change it to something that better describes the idea, and distinguishes it from existing ideas.

The basic statements of this idea are:

1. Particles do not exist — all matter is made of waves. Some of these waves are moving (such as photons) and some of them "standing" (such as conventional "particles" like protons, electrons, etc.).
2. Waves can only occur within a medium. Hence matter-energy is a manifestation of universal force fields in which the matter-energy is a moving or standing disturbance in the distribution of force.
3. There is an overall conservation of force in the universe, but the number of particle-waves is indeterminate, and could be zero without there being any loss in the total amount of force present.
4. It is not necessary to posit the existence of parallel universes (or extra dimensions in one universe) to explain where particles go when they disappear, or where they're coming from when they re-appear. Particle-waves can dissipate back into the universal force fields, and new particle-waves can appear elsewhere if the concentration of force exceeds a threshold.
5. There could be several, or many, different types of force fields. Perhaps there is a universal gravitational field, a universal electromagnetic field, etc.
6. Perhaps waves in different force fields can interact. For example, electricity and magnetism are related. Perhaps electromagnetism and gravity can interact. A proton could be a standing electromagnetic wave that symbiotically co-exists with a standing gravitational wave, giving the proton its "mass" in addition to its electrostatic charge.

On a cosmological scale, this idea states that there is an electromagnetic field the size of the universe itself. This provides an easy way of explaining several of the largest anomalies in cosmology:

• Light can travel through a vacuum — NOT! Waves do not travel through vacuums. There is a universal electromagnetic field, and photons are waves in that field.
• Light traveling from far away in the universe appears to reach us by traveling along a curved path. There are a variety of methods of arriving at this conclusion, including various sorts of effects that seem to be attributable to lensing. None of these has been exactly proven in any sort of absolute sense, but nevertheless, it seems reasonable to consider the possibility that light bending is occurring. For light to get bent, we would expect for there to be some extremely weak magnetic field, that effects the behavior of all EM radiation. Over very long distances, an immeasurably weak magnetic field could have enough effect on photons to bend their paths ever so slightly.
• The universe is expanding, which is predicted by the Big Band theory, but it is also accelerating, which cannot be explained by any existing construct. If there is a universal force field (electromagnetic, gravitational, or otherwise), and some other source of energy that is operating on everything in the universe, then the acceleration becomes explicable.

Send me an email if you would like to make suggestions as to how I should proceed. Perhaps precisely this very idea has already been proposed, and either accepted or rejected by the academic community (how would I know?). If so, you could save me a lot of time, and perhaps a good deal of childish fun, by telling me where I can read about this in the existing literature. Otherwise, just sit back and watch me burn. ;)

Josef Hasslberger, 1992: Considerations on light, matter, gravity and magnetism. hasslberger.com

Milo Wolff, 2006: Applications of the Wave Structure of Matter. quantummatter.com

Tewari, P., 2003: The Space Power Generator. tewari.org

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