Quantum Realism Part I. The Observed Reality

……Chapter 5. The Quantum Field

Brian Whitworth, New Zealand

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” (Galileo Galilei)…

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The standard model needs at least five fields and fifteen virtual particles to partly explain the ordinary matter that is less than five percent of our universe. The last chapter explained the same and more by one process running on a network (4.5.8), and this chapter uses the quantum field that network generates to explain gravity and electro-magnetism.

The founders of quantum theory initially envisaged the quantum field as a network of oscillating points, each like a mass on a spring (Figure 5.1) but vibrating in three directions not one. Schrödinger developed quantum mechanics based on a network of quantum harmonic oscillators, but there was a catch.

Figure 5.1. *A mass on a spring oscillates.*

Quantum oscillations explain light waves but occur outside space, in a non-physical dimension, and so are said to not actually exist. However in quantum realism, they do exist and cause the physical events we see. The quantum field then arises when the network of space vibrates, to support waves of light and lumps of matter, by oscillations that occur:

1. Outside space. Light vibrates on space (3.2.2).

2. On a surface. Space is a 3D surface (2.4.1).

3. As values. Set by a circular process (3.2.3).

4. On a network. Space is a network (2.1.5).

5. To cause physical events. The strength of the quantum field at each point is the probability that a physical event will occur there (3.9.3).

Figure 5.2 depicts the quantum field as the vibrating surface that causes our physical world.