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Subject: Quarks in Fibonacci sequence =============
This "something" is what this web site is all about: potential reality. Think of it as the Holon of Arthur Koestler, which correlates a shoal of fish swinging along a coral reef. At the beginning of the quantum realm, the Holon will absorb the potential values of the "complementary" observables from Heisenberg "uncertainty" relations, interpreted here as flexibility for the trajectories of all fish sharing a 'common wave function'. At this layer, corresponding to non-relativistic QM, the Holon fixes quantum trajectories only, just like the trajectories of every fish from the shoal. At the next layer of QCD and non-Abelian gauge fields, the Holon will begin to "absorb" the mass of elementary particles, and hence we get what physicists call quarks -- totally hidden or "confined" by default. But we have left the electron out from the outset. Thus, there should exist a third layer at which the Holon will "absorb" the mass of all fermions as well. Physically, you will only get more quarks, in Fibonacci sequence. All you need is a brand new extension of the standard model, such that the next layer of eight quarks will contain the current quarks "embedded" in it, in a way resembling the structure of cognitive concepts. Surely the "Higgs mechanism" was needed to fix the problems of the standard model. But claiming that the Higgs boson may be some "God particle" (L. Lederman), bestowing the mass of other particles, is a joke. Besides, the issue is far more important than the story in L. Lederman's book: recall Kurt Lewin's Genidentität thesis and the puzzle of particle identity (Chris Quigg, Rep. Prog. Phys. 70 (2007) 1019-1053; cf. Sec. 6, p. 1032, 'The problem of identity'), that is, the "sameness" of the particles of the same type, which MTW considered "a central mystery of physics" (C.W. Misner, K.S. Thorne, and J.A. Wheeler, Gravitation, 1973, p. 1215). We need a mechanism that can create and sustain 1080 identical electrons, say. Don't expect Mother Nature to produce some new law different than the one discovered by Fibonacci, just because you've build an extremely expensive toy. It was "an understandable ploy."
On 21
September 2008, I will elaborate on my prediction from 9 January 2003
above, and
will comment on the question posed by Chris Quigg: "How does H interact
with itself?"
The non-existence of Higgs boson will indeed start a new adventure! Meanwhile, check out a beautiful web site here, my email to Takashi Nakano from 30 July 2003 here, and Mario Livio's book, Ch. 5, p. 100. So far two out-of-office automated replies have been received, from Bruce Chrisman and Chris Quigg (see below). As of today, March 20th, no intelligent reply has reached me, and probably never will. If you contaminate science with money, politics, and obsessions with "the God particle", what can you expect from 'where the Web was born'? Actually, you never know. As they recently acknowledged, "CERN has taken a big gamble on Grid technology, and is pushing the technology forward in several ways, in order to make the 2008 LHC deadline." This frank statement sounds sufficiently unclear to spark genuine optimism. Let me try. As an offspring from the incredible expensive toy known as LHC, the so-called Grid technology might be useful to my grandchildren's networking, I suppose. Besides, if we compare LHC to "GW astronomy", one should expect with the latter to wind up with dozens of kilometers of dark air-conditioned tunnels from LIGO and the like, which may be used for wine cellars only, while the three LISA satellites will be a total space junk.
On this background, the "Grid technology" sounds
totally unclear yet really exciting! It will be certainly terribly
expensive, but ... who cares? =============== Subject: Bruce Chrisman
Out of Office
Notice that the notion of 'potential reality' falls in the basket of "mystic influence from non-observable physical beables to observable ones" (Holger Lyre); only it is anything but "mystic", in my opinion. Notice also the sentence below: "one would not think that any physics flows out of the breaking of coordinate invariance!" But if the physics in question flows out from 'the universe as ONE', the "flow" would, in the present-day GR, look like coming from some gauge-dependent stuff, and will inevitably break the coordinate invariance. Again, in the present-day GR, there is no other way for "absolute structures" (Domenico Giulini) to show up in the local mode of spacetime. More on such "dark" puzzles from Eric Linder and Daniel Eisenstein here, and on Quantum Theory & General Relativity here and here. And if you understand the nuts and bolts of GR, think deeply on the following question: what kind of reality is presented with the Christoffel symbol (Graham Nerlich)? And how do you understand Lluis Bel's conjecture that "the two connections, Christoffel’s and Weitzenböck’s, do not have to be considered as options of an alternative, but that in the contrary they have to be correlated and used jointly" (arXiv:0805.0846v2 [gr-qc])? What if the torsion degree of freedom is "dark" as well?
Last but not least, check out my talk on 21 September 2008.
D. Chakalov
[Ref. 1] Holger Lyre, Does the
Higgs Mechanism Exist?
arXiv:0806.1359v1 [physics.gen-ph]
"How is it then possible to instantiate a
mechanism, let alone a dynamics of mass generation, in the breaking of such a
kind of symmetry?
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