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)
Physical realism needs five fields to create fifteen or more particles to partly explain the matter that is less than five percent of our universe, but quantum realism explains that and more with just one field. The founders of quantum theory envisaged the quantum field as a network of oscillating points, each like a mass on a spring (Figure 1) but vibrating in three dimensions not one. Schrödinger then developed quantum mechanics by assuming a network of quantum harmonic oscillators. It worked brilliantly, but there was a catch.
Quantum harmonic oscillations occur outside our space, in a complex dimension that has no physical base. They explain light waves, but nothing physically moves so they are called virtual, meaning they don’t actually exist. However in quantum realism, they not only exist but also cause the physical events we see. The quantum field can then be imagined as a vibrating surface that supports waves of light and lumps of matter like electrons by harmonic oscillations that:
1. Vibrate in three dimensions. Our space is the 3D surface of a hypersphere (2.4.1).
2. Outside space. Quantum waves like light vibrate outside our space (3.2.2).
3. As processes. What oscillates isn’t a particle but a process that sets values (3.2.3).
4. Are passed on. Quantum processing waves are passed on each cycle (2.1.5).
5. Represent probabilities. The quantum field value at each point is probability that a physical event will occur there (3.9.3).
Figure 2 shows the quantum field as a constantly changing surface that oscillates, but that the non-physical generates the physical is hard for us to accept. However this shimmering surface explains the facts of physics better than anything else.
The last chapter attributed electromagnetic, strong, and weak effects to the quantum field, but how then does gravity arise?
QR5.1. Gravity Rules
QR5.2. Special Relativity
QR5.3. Matter Trembles
QR5.4. General Relativity
QR5.5. Electricity and Magnetism
QR5.6. Creating Order
QR5.7. Why Does The Universe Exist?