QR4.5 Fields Upon Fields

Physics spent much of last century trying to prove Newton’s idea that particles cause all the forces in nature. How gravity acted at a distance puzzled Newton, because no particles seemed to cause it. The standard model solved this problem by proposing that fields create virtual particles called bosons that exert forces. First the electro-magnetic field had photon bosons, then the weak field had gluon bosons, then the strong field had W bosons, and finally the Higgs field had a Higgs boson. By analogy, the standard model attributes the force of gravity to graviton bosons, despite no evidence at all. As a result, our universe is seen as fields upon fields, each creating different virtual particles that cause different forces. This section presents the alternate view that only field, the quantum field, does all the above.

QR4.5.1 Going Nowhere

QR4.5.2 The Frog in the Pan

QR4.5.3 Virtual Particles Aren’t Needed

QR4.5.4 A Model that Feeds on Data

QR4.5.5 A Particle Toolbox

QR4.5.6 The Last Standard Model

QR4.5.7 The Particle Model

QR4.5.8 A Processing Model

QR4.5.9 Testing The Theory

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