We have shown throughout "The Imagineer’s Chronicles" that observations of our environment suggest all volumes contain a continuous non-quantized from of mass.

The properties of a quantum "field" are one of those observations.

On page 23 of Gordon Kane’s book "Supersymmetry" he explains how physicists learned that they could simplify the calculations of the forces involved in planetary motion by assuming or imagining the existence of a continuous gravitational field.  They defined this field in such a way that if another planet were put at any point in that field the resulting force between the any other planet would be exactly the Newtonian one.  This simplified the calculations of planetary motion because it allowed them to isolate and analyze the forces of one planet on another instead of trying to analyze the forces exerted on a planet by all of the others at the same time.

Originally, many thought this was just a trick to simplify calculations.

However, as Gordon points out in his book Michael Faraday, while researching electromagnetism he discovered that a field has real physical properties and therefore was able to convince others that is was more the just a calculating device.

Wikipedia defines the Quantum field associated with electromagnetic force in terms of the exchange of photons between charged particles however they should not be thought of as "little billiard balls" but as field quanta or necessarily chunked ripples in a field that ‘look like’ particles

Therefore, as the name implies Quantum Field Theory assumes that a particle’s properties are a result of "chucked ripples" in a volume.

But this presents particle physicists and the proponents of Standard Model and Quantum Field Theory with a very real problem because they assume all forces are transmitted by discontinuous properties of particles while at the same time they define these properties in terms of "ripples" in a field that “looks like” particles.  However, a field by definition is made up of a continuous medium.  Therefore, the force they associate with particles is actually mediated by "ripples" in a continuous field, which contradicts their assumption that all forces are mediated by discontinuous particles.

However, we may be able to develop a better understanding of the makeup of a volume containing this field by examining the environment required to generate a particle instead of looking at the mathematical explanations provided by both the Standard Model and Quantum Field Theory for their interaction.

Its most obvious physical property is that it is continuous because both the Standard Model and Quantum Field Theory define particle interaction term of "ripples" or a "position-space wave function" moving in space.  This means that each point in a volume containing them must be connected to every other point in a volume to allow the "ripples" Quantum Field Theories associated with a particle to propagate in it.  

Additionally the article "Why is mass and energy quantized?" Oct. 4, 2007 shown it is possible to define the quantum properties of mass in terms of a classically resonating system formed by "ripples" in a continuous non-quantized field of mass.  In other words the reason why these ripples “look like particles” is because there energy is “packaged” or quantized in a resonant system.

However, the physical properties we have associated with a continuous non-quantized field or form of mass in The Imagineer’s Chronicles appears to have the characteristics required by Quantum Field Theories and the Standard Model of particle physics to define their properties.

Its continuous or field like nature would support propagation of ripples in a volume and the fact that it has mass means, as was shown in the article mentioned earlier "Why is mass and energy quantized?" it could support resonance.  Therefore, its existence would predict the particle nature of the ripples defined in Quantum Field Theories and the Standard Model of Particle Physics.

Therefore, the experimental verification of the existence of a quantum field also provides experimental verification of the existence of a continuous non-quantized form of mass.

Later Jeff

The "Shadows" of four spatial dimensions

Copyright 2009 Jeffrey O’Callaghan

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