Well we know there are two forces, the electromagnetic force and the weak force. The carrier of the electromagnetic being the photon and the carriers of the weak force being the two W bosons and the Z boson.
There is no such thing as a photon. Particles don't carry forces.
Since the W bosons carry electric charge we know that the two forces are related in some way. The idea arrived in the 70s was that this was because they were originally one force, the electroweak force.
Prove that the phenomena that people call W and Z bosons are indeed particles. If they are particles, they possess the phenomena of charge; they don't "carry" anything. Yes, the weak force and the electromagnetic force are related, and it is because they both result from the interaction of matter waves.
Unfortunately if you write down the equations for the electroweak force, relativity and quantum mechanics demand everything should be massless. Which they obviously aren't.
The first mistake is assuming that quantum mechanics describes reality in any meaningful way.
The only possible way around this is to have something which breaks the symmetry associated with the electroweak force.
Symmetry associated???? That sounds like mathematical games to me.
According to the theory certain interactions even though they involve different numbers and species of particles have the same probability of occurring. This is the symmetry I'm speaking of.
How would they know if they have the same probability of occurring?
Any mechanism which reduces the symmetry to a smaller set of symmetries will natural cause the force to split in two and give the W bosons and the Z boson their mass.
How would they know this?
RTE news/special reports writes:
But the universe is a big place and the Standard Model only explains a small part of it. Scientists have spotted a gap between what we can see and what must be out there. That gap must be filled by something we don't fully understand, which they have dubbed 'dark matter'. Galaxies are also hurtling away from each other faster than the forces we know about suggest they should. This gap is filled by 'dark energy'. This poorly understood pair are believed to make up a whopping 96 percent of the mass and energy of the cosmos.
There is something obviously wrong with the standard model and/or quantum mechanics for there to that much matter and energy to be unaccounted for. Just because a theory has nice mathematics and makes good predictions, doesn't mean it accurately represents reality. The higgs boson is nothing more than the all pervasive zero point energy field that I have mentioned here before. The standard model of physics just makes it fit into neat little imaginary particles with imagined force carrying capabilities.
Now, for my detractors, I read his whole post. I understand what he is saying. I just don't think it reflects reality. I suppose the usually suspects will be here shortly to jeer me to death because I upset their apple cart.
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