The Simple Universe

A physics model from first principles

Introduction to the model

The model uses particles that have a shape and a size

The model's subatomic particles are constructed using an elementary strand shaped particle, a particle that moves continuously at a single constant speed, in three dimensional space

The following animation shows a simple sequence of the strand shaped particle, tagged one behind the other, building the model's base subatomic particles: the neutrino, positron, electron and 'neutral' particle; the Particles button steps through the process, the Run button start / stops the animation (any of the buttons can be used in pause mode)

Building The Base Particles

Instead of constructing the proton as two up quarks and one down quark, the proton is constructed as a positron sandwiched between two 'neutral' particles, and the neutron is constructed as a proton with an electron embedded into the side of the proton

The following animation shows the shapes and structures of the model's subatomic particles, the Particles button steps through the particles, the Run button start / stops the animation (any of the buttons can be used in pause mode)

The Subatomic Particles

Animations are used to explain how the model works, for example, how an electric field makes an electron move

The following animation shows the model's electron, positron, 'neutral' particle, neutrino and particle of light, interacting with the short and long electric field particles, the Interaction button steps through the interactions, the 01 input box lists the interactions for direct selection, the Run button start / stops the animation (any of the buttons can be used in pause mode)

Electric Fields

The model contains electric charge, electric fields, atoms, mass and gravity

Next pages: Preparation

2 Notes 3 Rationale 4 Overview 5 Atom walk through

If you would like to help publicise the Simple Universe model for discussion, please feel free to inform other people about the model

Thank you

Bob Pike

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Professor Jim Al-Khalili asks, can quantum behaviour be explained with common sense and logic

The model suggests, yes...

And just to be clear, it is the shape and structure of the subatomic particles, that provides the explanations

And it is the physics engine for the strand shaped particle, that provides the mathematics

Angela Collier

So there's this quote from Einstein that says...

"If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, then you don't really understand it yourself"

And I just think that's really silly, because six-year-olds are very young, they don't have a lot of life experience - they don't know differential equations !

What do you mean, if you can't explain it to them, then you don't understand it - isn't it on them?

I would like to give you an example today of something you can't explain in a 30 minute YouTube video, by doing a 30 minute YouTube video on why you can't explain the thing

Angela's YouTube video

Why you can't explain quantum chromodynamics

Could it be, that quantum chromodynamics (the structure and bonding of protons and neutrons) is now so complex, that it would be absurd for there to be a simple solution?

And yet...

The following animation shows protons and neutrons, in the model, bonding together to form the atomic nuclei of hydrogen through to carbon, with decay sequences included for the unstable isotopes, the Run button start / stops the animation (any of the buttons can be used in pause mode)

Atomic Nuclei

The following is an interactive animation, that lets you build the atomic nuclei, from hydrogen through to iron in the model, the Next button steps through prepared atomic nuclei configurations, the Filter input box lists the prepared atomic nuclei configurations for direct selection, the Run button start / stops the animation (any of the buttons can be used in pause mode)

Atomic Nuclei Builder

The elementary particle is a strand shaped particle that moves at a single constant speed

The elementary particle is a simple particle, it does not contain information related to atomic structure

And yet... it leads to structures that correlate with atomic nuclei