Overview - a simple approach

Solution found by a random process

Our universe

The Standard model of particle physics and quantum field theory

Are scientific theories that model the subatomic particles mathematically

This makes it difficult to visualise what the subatomic particles are

Perhaps an alternative approach could help

Consider for example, an approach that uses first principles

Consider for example the principle of a solution found by a random process

That is, any problem that is solved using a random process

The random process will tend to repeat the random discovery of the simple solutions

More often than repeating the random discovery of the complex solutions

If our universe was created by a random process, then the principle should apply to our universe

That is, out of all the randomly created universes that have life, the simplest one could perhaps be created more often than any of the other ones

The principle suggests that our universe could perhaps be one of the simple universes that has life

Applying the principle of a solution found by a random process to our universe

The atom, electric fields and gravity appear to be essential for life to form in our universe, but what about something like relativity, perhaps life would still be able to form in our universe if relativity was not present

If so, this suggests that relativity could perhaps be present because it is a by-product of something else, a something else that is essential

And a similar question, what if light did not move at a constant speed?

This in itself does not seem to be essential for life to form

So this too could perhaps suggest that the reason for the constant speed of light is a by-product of a something else, a something else that is essential

And what about quantum fields

It is believed that the atomic world consists of quantum fields

But perhaps atoms may also be possible in a universe that consists of particles

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Essential part of our universe

First attempt

The goal of this physics model

Is to model the atom

Using particles

If a universe with particles

Were to be easier to come into existence than a universe that has quantum fields

Then it could perhaps be that our universe would be more likely to be a universe that has particles

And by the same logic

A simple universe that has one type of elementary particle and one type of force carrier particle

Could perhaps be easier to come into existence than a complex universe that has seventeen types of elementary particles and thirteen types of force carrier particles

The first attempt to understand the atom using particles

Failed, because at that time

The particle approach appeared to lead to an unstable atom

For reference, here is a YouTube video (2020) of the Physics Explained channel discussing the Rutherford and Bohr early ideas of the atom

The early ideas were then enhanced by Louis de Broglie, leading to the modern day quantum mechanical interpretation of the atom

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Random processes find simple solutions

This physics model

What the model starts with

This physics model is based on the principle of a solution found by a random process

That is, a random process will naturally discover simple solutions

More frequently than complex solutions

Where possible

The model replaces a complex concept

With a simpler version of that concept

As a suggestion

This physics model consists of three dimensional space

Whose outer edge expands as three dimensional space from a central point

Within the model's increasing volume of space

The yardsticks of speed, length and rate of time

Are constant yardsticks and absolute

As a suggestion

The model uses a static universal reference frame

For the motion of its elementary strand shaped particle, through the three dimensional space

As a suggestion

The head and tail of the elementary strand shaped particle

Move continuously at constant speeds, through the three dimensional space

As a suggestion

The constant speed of the head of the strand shaped particle

Is greater than the constant speed of its tail

This causes the strand shaped particle to continuously extend itself

With the head of the strand shaped particle eventually breaking free

Leaving the strand shaped particle with a new head, that as a suggestion, repeats the process

Each parent strand shaped particle

Produces a continuous stream

Of child strand shaped particles

The parent strand shaped particle and the child strand shaped particle

Have a shape, a size, and a surface

And at any one moment in time, a specific position in space, and the particles interact with one another when their surfaces touch

As opposed to

A wave-like nature, or a point-like size

Or at any one moment in time, an uncertain position in space, or interaction with quantum fields

At the initial starting point of this physics model

There are only the parent strand shaped particles, and the child strand shaped particles

The parent strand shaped particle moves continuously at a single constant speed, across a single constant yardstick of distance, creating a single constant rate of time

There is no concept

Of matter or antimatter

Or of positive or negative electric charge

Or of mass

There is no concept

Of electric fields

Or of magnetic fields

Or of gravitational fields

There is no concept

Of electrons or protons

Or of particles of light or neutrinos

Or of atoms

There is no concept

Of variation in rates of time

Or variation in yardsticks of distance

The aim is to manufacture those concepts using the strand shaped particle

Allowing the why, the how, and the what is it

For those concepts, to be understood

That is, the aim is to use the parent strand shaped particle

To construct the neutrino, particle of light, electron, positron, proton and neutron

And to use those particles to construct the atom

And the aim is to use the child strand shaped particle

To produce the behaviour of fields

That is, electric fields, magnetic fields, gravitational fields

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Scientific method and mathematics

Proofs and disproofs

Amongst other things

Scientific method requires

Observation, scepticism, and clarity of thought

In general

Physics theories have a mathematical form

Such as for example, gravity and the general theory of relativity

In general

Physics theories are validated

By comparing what is calculated using the mathematics of the theory, to what is experimentally observed

The mathematical form of this physics model

Is a physics engine that models the behaviour, of a three dimensional strand shaped particle

That moves continuously at a single constant speed, against a static universal reference frame, in three dimensional space

In this physics model

The shape of a particle

Is important

The approach taken by the model

Is that in general, all physics theories (including this physics model) have in some way or other

One or more assumptions to the theory

And therefore perhaps

All physics theories

Should be considered as suggested theories

And if assumptions are always present in physics theories

It could perhaps be

That those assumptions follow through to any disproof as well

Perhaps all physics proofs and all physics disproofs

Should be considered

As suggested proofs and suggested disproofs

Perhaps the most important thing

Is to have

Clarity of thought

For reference, here is a YouTube video (1964) of physicist Richard Feynman discussing scientific method

For reference, here is a YouTube video of Richard Feynman discussing how a new idea in physics may have a different philosophy to current physics

The clip is taken from the "Seeking New Laws" lecture, part of a group of lectures titled "The Character of Physical Law", given by Richard Feynman at Cornell University in 1964

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