If the concept of a universe composed of individual particles acting
on each other in an otherwise unsubstantial field, has failed to explain satisfactorily the natural phenomena presented by
light and matter in the world around us, is because I believe that theory evolved from assumptions that were not reflecting
Nature actual reality. In imagining atoms being constituted by particles and particles constituted by other particles, we
will reach a limit defining an ultimate spec of something floating into an empty space, the substance of this speck representing
what constitutes the fabric of the matter in the Universe. The Ether was once envisioned to be a substance similar to air
or water that under the action of energy would react with spherical waves of compression and rarefaction, (like sound waves,
for instance) following the physical laws evolved from the mechanical point of view of classical physics. The idea of substantial
Ether lost its credibility when it became evident through the experiments of Faraday that the phenomenon of electromagnetism
could not be interpreted to be a system of waves generated into a medium possessing the physical properties of air or water.
In a now famous experiment, Michelson and Morley found that the speed of light was not affected by the relative movement of
its source through a hypothetical medium. This discovery was making it impossible to establish the absolute motion of an object
with respect to the ether cardinal axis and raised doubts about the possibility of its existence. Another problem with the
concept of ether, was that to explain certain observed light phenomena, the waves generated within the medium had to be of
the transverse type. In order to generate the observed light phenomena waves with these characteristics could only be produced
in the material world by a substantial medium with a rigidity greater then iron. An Ether with properties similar to those
possessed by the natural elements could not exist. But then why could not the Ether exist with its own laws and properties,
as a separat substance that by itself alone constitutes the Universe and is able to produce those phenomena that our mind
interprets as matter? If the idea of a field of forces as conceived by Faraday was satisfactorily used to explain the electromagnetic
phenomena, why couldn't we believe that some substance intrinsic to that same field actually exists and is representing in
itself the only stuff composing the universe?
Since
the early thinking on this subject matter was conceived to be made of small particles that could be subdivided again and again
until we would reach an indivisible spec, being in itself the fundamental unit of a universal substance. But why if what we
had considered to be particles did not exist in themselves, but were representing instead localized pocket of energy acting
in the field's substance? What we will call the Field is actually, the substance composing the Universe and the Universe is
all there is as substance, the only other measurable entity being the energy acting into it (recalling Aristotle and DeCartes?).
On
this hypothesis a new atomic model can be constructed where energy having in itself no substance is localizing in the field
in pockets of a certain spherical size, the size being in a direct proportion with the amount of the energy acting in it and
representing in a space time relationship induced variations in the intensity of the field at rest.
The energy identifying itself volumetrically in space in spherical
pockets must be endowed with the mechanical dynamics properties necessary to produce disturbances in the substance of the
field. These disturbances will radiate from the pocket in a wavelike fashion reflecting the acquired particular space-time
characteristics. I will from now on call sources, these spherical pockets acting on each other at a distance through the substance
of the field, and when colliding with each other, originating physical phenomena similar to those observed in the experiments
with particles accelerators and cloud chambers.
The regularity
and precision of the events observed in the physical world unequivocally tell us the existence of universal laws governing
them. The field and the energy in it must be organized in a manner that reveals to our senses a world that we can observe
and recognize. In order for our hypothesis to be valid, certain laws pertaining to the field must exist, regulating the intensity
level and the distribution of the sources of energy through it. One law must establish that the energy of the field at rest
must remain at a constant value, any increase or decrease in its intensity created in it by the action of energy must be instantly
shed, through the action of the waves generated within it. The waves will be emitted in a rectilinear spyral configuration,
destrose or snistrose in caracter and a constant velocity. (see drawings) The only possible velocity through the medium
of the field at rest must be the constant velocity that we have measured for the electromagnetic waves, when radiating in
an empty space. The amount of energy localized in a source must characterize a mass and a spherical volume that can only assume
certain particular established values.
(see chapt. 14)
If sources collide with others or become
suddenly energized, as in certain experiments with the particle accelerator, they will split into a number of sources at a space-time classical configuration.
I
will describe this model through diagrammatic sketches illustrating a four dimensional world with three absolute cardinal
axises and a dimension in time. The diagrammatic sketches that I am submitting will only be of help in visualizing the model
as I describe it, since due to the enormous difference in relative size of the occurring events we cannot apply a scale of
a particular size, the sum of their energy values being equal to the total original amount involved in the collision.
The sources will appear always in a definite spherical volume proportional in size to the energy contained in them while all
the laws of conservation of energy previously (see chapter 14) defined will be observed.
The
size, the properties and the half life span of each source characterize each type observed, all being in a function of the
amount of the energy of action involved. Nothing can be added or detracted from one without transforming it in a source of a different kind,
each exhibiting their distinguishing physical properties in energy and size. In the new atomic model now proposed we will
describe the source's mechanical dynamics exerted on each other through the action of the waves generated in
to them . When I will talk of energy, I will use the electron-volt "eV" as a measuring unit. One
electron-volt of energy, represents the energy acquired by an electron in a potential differential of one Volt. In measuring
the amount of intensity contained in a disturbance created in the field through the source mechanical dynamics, I will also
use electron-volt units, since the amount of intensity in an impulse will always have to be proportional to the energy that
originated it; one being equivalent in value to the other. I understand the intensity level of the field at rest to be of
constant value. To indicate intensities above and below that level we will have to use values of energy
expressed in eV of a positive or negative character, depending if they are above or below the energy of the field at rest.
When Electron-Volt units will be used in a negative way, they will represent level of intensity of equivalent energy value,
but below the energy at rest of the field, or below the constant value of the field, representing a depression in its intensity.
We must try to understand first what is the intensity of the field at one time and what is meant when we attribute a
certain value to it. If the field can acquire under the influence of energy different values of intensity,
it means that this intensity represents different aspects in the structure of its substance. The field than must be made of
particles or grains of energy whose number per unit of space represent the intensity of the field at that point. An increase
in the number of grains indicates an increase in energy above the field at rest; a decrease in value indicates a drop in intensity.
This statement asks therefore for the existence of an infinitesimal grain in the structural substance of the field, the dimension
of which when established will have finally reached the indivisible spec of substance conceived by the Greek philosophers.
What we have called energy is an entity that has the power to localize in spherical volumes and within them dynamically act
on the individual grains constituting the field.
I imagine a field
substance which, in a similarity with the original description of the Ether, is composed of infinitesimal specs acting on
each other; this time though, the action exercised between these infinitesimal parts is occurring only in the direction of
their velocity vectors. Waves generated this way must possess linear trajectories and must proceed at the velocity of light.
Instead of particles constituted of specs of something acting in a vacuum, we will have a whole universal field of something. The Universe must become
the body on which everything else is written, a living thing like an ocean with ever-changing currents and waves, designing
on its canvas a world that miraculously men have come to perceive.
In
order to answer certain questions posed by the quantum theory interpretation of the universal substance, it was necessary
to recognize a certain field of forces that was named the Higgs field after the scientist that theorized its existence. The
Higgs field comprehends the entire universe, while the Higgs particles appear and disappear, their presence necessary to resolve
the quantum interpretation of particle physics.
In our
new hypothesis we can accept the existence of the Higgs field, with the understanding that it represents in itself the substance
constituting the Universe, while the Higgs particles represent the sources of energy localizing in it. In mechanically shifting
the field grains in more or less concentrated form above its natural level or rarefying them below it, the source will generate
radiating waves that we will call intensity impulses. In order to explain the physical behavior experimentally observed in
nature, we must assume the presence of another type of wave generated by the source as the result of its implosions, representing
the shifts occurring in the intensity of the field in order to reestablish its balance at rest level. I will call this
shifting effects always characterized by a depression, implosion waves.