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)…

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The standard model needs at least five fields and fifteen virtual particles to even partly explain the ordinary matter that is less than five percent of our universe, while the last chapter did the same and more using one process running on one network (4.5.8). This chapter aims to unify the fields of physics under one quantum field, while the many fields of quantum field theory deny a unified field theory.

The founders of quantum theory initially envisaged the quantum field as a network of oscillating points, each like a mass on a spring (Figure 5.1) but vibrating in three directions not one. Schrödinger developed quantum mechanics based on a network of quantum harmonic oscillators, but there was a catch.

Figure 5.1. *A mass on a spring oscillates.*

Quantum oscillations occur outside our space, in a complex dimension that isn’t physical. They explain light waves but as nothing physically moves, they are called virtual, so they don’t actually exist, but in this model, they not only exist but also cause the physical events we see. The quantum field then arises from a surface that vibrates to support waves of light and lumps of matter by oscillations that occur:

1. Outside space. Light vibrates on space not in it (3.2.2).

2. On a surface. Space is a hyper-sphere surface (2.4.1).

3. As values. A circular process sets positive-negative values (3.2.3).

4. On a network. The network of space passes on values as waves (2.1.5).

5. To cause physical events. The strength of the quantum field at each point is the probability that a physical event will occur there (3.9.3).

Figure 5.2 imagines the quantum field as a vibrating surface that causes our physical world.