The unification of gravity, electricity, and magnetism has long been a dream of physics. The standard model unified electricity and magnetism using virtual photons, but virtual gravitons couldn’t explain gravity. Then as it invented more fields and particles, the dream was lost because it didn’t seem possible for one field to generate all its particles.
But if the strong, weak, and Higgs fields are unnecessary inventions (4.5.3), the dream of a unified field theory re-emerges, as the fields to unify are again just gravity and electro-magnetism. This unification could be called the gravito-electro-magnetic field, but the quantum field is simpler.
What then is the quantum field? In simple terms, it is the wave values that explain light and matter in quantum theory. Schrödinger’s equation describes how these waves spread but not why they collapse at a point in a physical event. However processing waves that overload a network can restart at a point, so matter can be a standing wave of extreme light constantly restarting (4.5.8), with three different properties:
1. Mass. The net process value from +1 to -1 in one or more dimensions.
2. Charge. The net process remainder from +1 to -1 in one or more dimensions.
3. Spin. The process spin direction, which can be up or down for an axis.
In this model, matter spreads processing around itself like ripples in a bucket (Figure 5.15), to alter the values of the quantum field. This field generates the physical world we see, so if its values are null, we see empty space, but if they are mass +1, charge -1, and spin ±1, we see an electron, and so on.
In Figure 5.16, the mass, charge, and magnetism of matter spread into the quantum field around it. Mass strengthens the field closer to it to cause a gravity field, charges speed up or slow down the field between them as remainders cancel or add, to cause an electrical field, and magnets also speed up or slow down the field between them, as spins make space deeper or shallower.
The effect in all cases is that matter moves when the quantum field around it is stronger or faster, as even a small bias can give movement in our time.
Matter then doesn’t just constantly quiver, it also spreads mass, charge, and spin that alter the space around it to cause the fields of gravity and electro-magnetism. All their effects then derive from one quantum field that always spreads, so matter can act at a distance despite Newton’s belief.
The quantum field exists if quantum theory is valid, which it is, while making it unreal gives the many fields and particles of the standard model, so there can be field unification or particles, but not both. The next section explores how this field creates order as well as disorder.