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 many fields of the standard model made it unlikely that one field could generate all its particles.
However if the strong, weak, and Higgs fields are unnecessary inventions (4.5.3), the dream re-emerges, as the fields to be unified reduce to three again. Their unification could be called the gravito-electro-magnetic field, but the quantum field is simpler.
What is the quantum field of this model? In simple terms, it is the wave values that quantum theory uses to explain light and matter. Schrödinger’s equation describes how these waves spread, but not why they collapse at a point in a physical event. This model does, as processing waves that overload the network will restart at a point. This then allowed matter to be exteme light constantly restarting in a standing wave (4.5.8), with three distinct properties:
1. Mass. The net process result 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.
Processing on the quantum network always spreads, so matter spreads a distribution around itself, like ripples in a bucket (Figure 5.15), to alter the above values in the quantum field that defines the physical world we see. If the above values are all null, we see empty space, but if they are mass +1 and charge -1, we see an electron, and so on.
In Figure 5.16, the mass, charge, and magnetism of matter spread to affect the quantum field around it. A large mass strengthens the field closer to it to cause gravity. Charges speed up or slow down the field between them, as remainders cancel or add, to cause an electrical field. Magnets also speed up or slow down the field between them, as spins make space deeper or shallower, to cause a magnetic field.
The effect in all cases is that matter moves when the strength or speed of the field around it changes, as even a small bias can give movement in our time.
Gravity and electro-magnetism move matter by altering the quantum field to bias its natural tremble. Gravitational fields bias the field strength around matter, electrical fields bias the field speed between charges, and magnetic fields do the same between magnets. These fields then derive from one field, the quantum field, based on waves not particles.
This unification is based on the assumption that quantum theory describes what is real, while the opposite assumption leads to many fields and particles, as the standard model shows. We can have field unification or particles but not both, and the next section explores the implications.