The unification of the fields of gravity, electricity, and magnetism has long been a dream of physics. The electro-magnetic field united the latter but gravity resisted, and the new fields of the standard model made it seem unlikely that one field could create dozens of particles.
But if the strong, weak, and Higgs fields are unnecessary inventions (4.5.3), the fields to be unified reduce to three again, which the last module attributed to one cause. This cause could be called the gravito-electro-magnetic field, but the quantum field is simpler.
What is the quantum field? In simple terms, it is the quantum wave values that quantum theory uses to explain photons and electrons. Schrödinger’s equation describes how these waves spread but not why they collapse and restart at a point when a physical event occurs. This model explains that they are processing waves that restart when they overload the network they spread on. The same process that explains the quantum waves of light then also explain matter (4.5.8), as quantum waves constantly restarting in a standing wave. This allows matter to have three distinct aspects:
1. Mass. The net processing result from +1 to -1 in one or more dimensions.
2. Charge. The net processing remainder from +1 to -1 in one or more dimensions.
3. Spin. The processing spin direction, which can be up or down.
One field, the quantum field, then produces space, light, and matter according to the values it takes. When the quantum field takes null values, we see empty space, but if it takes the values mass +1 and charge -1, we see an electron. Quantum waves always spread, so matter creates a distribution, like ripples spreading in a bucket (Figure 5.15), that alters the quantum field around it because quantum waves superpose.
In Figure 5.16, gravity, charge, and magnetism move objects by biasing the quantum field around them. On the left is matter, whose mass, charge, and magnetism affect the distribution it spreads into the quantum field around it.
On the right, is the quantum field that mediates the effects of mass, charge, and magnetism. A large mass creates a gravity field that increases the strength of the quantum field closer to it. Charges create electrical fields that speed up or slow down the quantum field between them, when they cancel or add. Magnets create magnetic fields that also speed up or slow down the quantum field between them, when spins make space deeper or shallower.
The effect in all cases is that matter moves because biasing the strength or speed of the quantum field around it makes it restart more often one way, as even a small bias will give movement in our time.
The fields of physics then move matter by biasing its natural tremble, not by invoking particles from nowhere to push it. When the quantum field around a matter entity becomes stronger or faster in one direction, it restarts more often that way, so it moves in our terms. Gravitational fields bias the field strength around matter, electrical fields bias the field speed between charges, and magnetic fields do the same between magnets. All these fields are based on only one field, the quantum field.