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 five fields and fifteen virtual particles to only partly explain ordinary matter, which is less than five percent of our universe, but one quantum process running on a network can do the same and more (4.5.8). This chapter attributes gravity and electro-magnetism to the quantum field that network generates.

The founders of quantum theory initially imagined the quantum field as a network of oscillating points vibrating in three directions, like a mass on a spring (Figure 5.1). Schrödinger developed quantum mechanics based on these quantum harmonic oscillators, but there was one problem.

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

The quantum waves that explain light occur outside space, in a non-physical dimension, so they can’t physically exist, but in this model, they both exist and cause the physical events we see. The quantum field then arises when the network of space vibrates, to support waves of light and lumps of matter, by oscillations that occur:

1. Outside space. Light vibrates on space (3.2.2).

2. On a surface. Space is a 3D surface (2.4.1).

3. As values. Set by a circular process (3.2.3).

4. On a network. Space is a network (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 depicts the quantum field as the vibrating surface that causes our physical world.