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When a random process is used to randomly build a solution to a problem, the random process will naturally discover simple solutions more often than complex solutions
This is the principle of a solution found by a random process, and for example, it is why Occam's razor can be used when trying to understand a natural process
And also perhaps, why the phrase "as simple as possible - but not any simpler" might apply to physics
If universes were to be created by a random process, then the suggestion is that simple universes will be created more often than complex universes
If our universe was created by a random process, then out of the simple and complex universes that lead to life, and without any further inferences, the odds might be in favour of us being in one of those simple universes that has life, from the universe's elementary particles and basic building blocks, through to our planet's building blocks of life
Between universes that have particles and those that have quantum fields, at a guess, a universe that has particles might be easier to create, than a universe that has quantum fields
So, as a question, is there any possibility at all that our universe could be a universe of particles?
Is there a possibility that the atom in our universe is a system of particles?
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The goal of the Simple Universe model, is to model the atom using particles
In the Simple Universe model, the subatomic particles have a shape, and a size, and a structure, and at any one moment in time, a specific position in three dimensional space, and they interact with other subatomic particles, or interact with electric field particles, when their surfaces touch
The following animation shows the shapes and structures of the model's subatomic particles, the
button steps through the particles, the button start / stops the animation (any of the buttons can be used in pause mode)
The Subatomic Particles
The mathematics of quantum field theory models the atom, but once past the single electron hydrogen atom, the calculations become remarkably complex
And yet by comparison, if atoms were to be modelled using particles, then the calculations might be able to be completed fully, regardless as to the atom being modelled
And by watching a computer simulation of the atom, we might be able to understand everything, from the atom through to any molecule or substance, and on to viruses, bacteria, medicines and biological processes
If the hydrogen atom were to be modelled using particles, then in a sense, it may be possible to understand everything
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The quantum field theory understanding of the hydrogen atom, is obtained by calculating the probability of where the electron may be found, when a measurement is taken to determine the electron's position, when the electron is near a proton
Image produced by Wikipedia user PoorLeno
For reference, here is a YouTube video (2020) animation of the 3D mapped quantum field theory atomic orbitals of the single electron hydrogen atom
Atomic orbitals animation
0 minutes : atomic orbitals
1 minutes : orbitals with quantum "value" 2
3 minutes : orbitals with quantum "value" 3
5 minutes : higher orbitals
For reference, here is a YouTube video (2022) of Arvin Ash discussing particles and quantum fields
Particles and fields
0 minutes : history of modern physics
1 minutes : advent of quantum mechanics
5 minutes : problems with quantum mechanics
7 minutes : quantum field theory
9 minutes : QFT explains forces
11 minutes : QFT is incomplete
For reference, here is a YouTube video (2021) of Arvin Ash discussing how quantum mechanics predicts the structure of atoms
Quantum mechanics and atoms
0 minutes : quantum mechanics and atom structure
1 minutes : it's all about electron shells
2 minutes : Schrodinger equation predicts elements
3 minutes : shell numbers are special
6 minutes : solving the wave function
8 minutes : visualizing an atom's wave function
9 minutes : shells correspond to the periodic table
12 minutes : orbitals and shells
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The Simple Universe
When a random process is used to find a solution to a problem, it naturally discovers the simpler solutions more frequently than the complex solutions. This is the principle of a solution found by a random process
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the molecule that carries the genetic information of living things, formed by using the building blocks cytosine, guanine, adenine, thymine
By placing those four building blocks into ever longer and varied sequences into a DNA molecule, all living things on earth are defined
Evolution occurs because of random changes in the DNA molecules passed on from parent to offspring, and so evolution produces simple solutions because of the principle of a solution found by a random process
For example, animals are able to assess what is around them, and a part of that requires objects to be seen distinctly. Evolution has achieved this for some animals by giving their eyes imperceptible tiny to and fro movements, causing the edges of an object's image on the eye's retina to oscillate in intensity. This allows edges in a scene to automatically stand out from the overall visual signals being sent to the animal's brain
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A universe might be simple if it has components with few qualities and those few qualities are simple. The following is an example of a simple universe
Space is three dimensional, which as a suggestion, has an outer edge that continuously moves away from a central position, continuously increasing the amount of the three dimensional space
One type of elementary particle, which as a suggestion, is created steadily over time at the expanding edge of the universe. The elementary particle has a shape, which as a suggestion, is strand shaped, and the head and tail of the elementary strand particle move at continuous constant speeds against a static universal reference frame in the three dimensional space
One type of elementary force carrier particle, which as a suggestion, is created steadily over time by the elementary strand particle. The constant speed of the head of the elementary strand shaped particle, which as a suggestion, is greater than the constant speed of its tail, causes the strand shaped particle to continuously extend itself. Eventually the head of the strand shaped particle breaks free, and the new head of the strand shaped particle repeats the process. The part of the head that breaks free becomes a force carrier particle. The force carrier particle is also in the shape of a strand
One type of elementary interaction, which as a suggestion, is that the strand particles tend to stick to each other when their surfaces touch, and while in contact, they influence each other's direction of travel
When a force carrier strand particle catches up with an elementary strand particle and passes it by, their touching surfaces are moving at different speeds. As a suggestion, this causes the touching side of the elementary strand particle to stretch out, and the touching side of the force carrier strand particle to compress up, and the two strand particles curve around into an arc together
When a force carrier strand particle meets an elementary strand particle head-on and passses it by, their touching surfaces are moving in opposite directions. As a suggestion, this causes the touching sides of both strand particles to compress up, and the two strand particles twist around each other before passing on by
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A universe might be complex if it has components that have many qualities and those many qualities are complex. The following is an example of a complex universe
Space is three dimensional without a center nor an outer edge to the space. For example, the three dimensional space is curved into a fourth dimension. The space continuously expands into the fourth dimension. The particles inside the universe do not have access to the fourth dimension
Seventeen types of elementary particles structured as excitations of seventeen types of quantum fields that are present thoughout space, and the excitations were around 1080 or more in number when created at the beginning of the universe
The elementary particles occupy space according to a probability amplitude and an uncertainty principle, and additionally some of the elementary particles obey an exclusion principle
The elementary particles move without reference to a universal reference frame
Some of the elementary particles have a quality, electric charge, that comes in an amount of either +1/3, +2/3, +1, -1/3, -2/3, or -1 electric charge
Some of the elementary particles have a quality, colour charge, that comes in an amount of either one red, one green, one blue, one antired, one antigreen, or one antiblue amount of colour charge
Thirteen types of elementary force carrier particles, the gauge bosons, which mediate interactions between the elementary particles
Four fundamental interactions
gravitational, electro-magnetic, weak, strong
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In the Simple Universe model, the atom is a system where electron particles orbit a central atomic nucleus that consists of proton and neutron particles
In the Simple Universe model, the proton is a positron sandwiched between two 'neutral' particles (1) and the neutron is a proton with an electron embedded into the side of the proton
The 'neutral' particles are particles that have equal amounts of positive and negative electric charge and their positive and negative electric fields interact with light (2)
And the orbiting electron is a particle that is pushed around the atomic nucleus by light attached to the electron (3)
(1) The 'neutral' particle is not a particle that is in the Standard model of particle physics
(2) In the model, the electric field particles of the 'neutral' particle are long in length, whereas the electric field particles of the electron, and the positron that is inside a proton, are short in length
The long length of the 'neutral' particle electric field particles allows them to wrap around a particle of light and stretch out one side of the light while compressing up its other side
This causes the particle of light to arc along its body and alter its direction
(3) In the model, the natural state of a particle of matter is to be stationary with respect to the model's static universal reference frame
For a particle of matter to move, the particle's perfectly round shape has to be distorted
At a macro level, the strength of attraction between the oppositely charged electron and proton increases as the distance between the two particles decreases
At the atomic scale in the model, the positive and negative 'neutral' particle electric fields from the proton and neutron, have no effect on the light when the light is moving at a tangent to the nucleus
When the orbiting electron approaches the nucleus, this causes the light with its attached electron to tend towards a tangential path around the nucleus (4)
(4) The positive and negative 'neutral' particle electric fields have no impact on the light when the path of the light is at a tangent to the electric field
When the electron and its attached light are moving towards the nucleus, most of the direction changes of the attached light are away from the nucleus
Which puts the path of the attached light more at a tangent to the nucleus and lessens the next interaction with the positive and negative 'neutral' particle electric fields
The net outcome, is that close to the nucleus, the electron and its attached light are pushed onto a tangential path around the nucleus
At a macro level, electrons moving in a circular path radiate light
At the atomic scale in the model, the positive and negative 'neutral' particle electric fields from the proton and neutron, control the orbiting electron by changing the path of the light that is attached to the electron, and this keeps the light attached to the electron
At a macro level, electrons have freedom of movement
At the atomic scale in the model, the positive and negative 'neutral' particle electric fields from the proton and neutron, control the path of the light that is attached to the orbiting electron, and this restrains the electron in its movement around the nucleus (5)
However, because the strand particles inside the particle of matter stick to each other, they continuously pull a distorted particle of matter back into its perfectly round shape
The preferred state of the particle of matter's internal movement is to be in the perfectly round shape
This gives matter a continuous resistance to being moved, and matter only obtains persistent movement when it is pushed along by a particle of light attached to the particle of matter
(With light pushing particles of matter along, this is why particles of matter in the model do not move faster than light)
(5) To determine if electrons are restricted to discrete orbitals, then the model might need to be run as a computer program and the electrons observed to see if they follow discrete orbitals around the nucleus
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Our world consists of atoms
If the atom is modelled on the basis of the mathematics of quantum field theory, then the atoms beyond hydrogen, have so far, required approximated results
In the model, the calculations for the particles may be able to be completed, regardless as to which atomic element is being modelled
This means that the model of the atom may also be able to model any molecule, and then any substance, and so on, to everything
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If we were to understand the hydrogen atom completely, then we would understand the electron and the proton, for they are what a hydrogen atom is. And that would mean that we would understand electric charge, electric fields and mass, for these things are what an electron and proton are
And by understanding the electron and the proton, then we would understand light, for light is emitted when electrons and protons come together to form hydrogen. And it would also mean that we would understand the neutron and all the nuclei, for they are formed from the electron and the proton
And finally, if we were to understand the hydrogen atom completely, then we would understand gravity, for hydrogen atoms are attracted to each other
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