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Originally Posted by JamesANicholson  What's the difference?
Strings --> Higgs --> particles
Strings + Higgs (like your Masons) --> particles or
(Your) Masons --> Strings --> particles
(Your) Masons (like Higgs) + Strings --> particles
Are you just giving a new name to the Higgs?
And why use the name "Masons" for your hypothetical 'actor' when it already has an existing workable definition in use at present in the standard model for a family of particle types. |
Hi Aaron
My paradigm does not fit with the existing one though it does overlap. First accept that there must be an underlying fabric - call it by any name that suits you - I use the term 'gravitational field'. This has to be made of something and have a structure. It is made of two things - masons and gravitons which occupy (what would otherwise be empty) space.
A mason (French 'maison' - house) is the structure which holds the string which, in combination, makes up matter. Normally the string is wound up inside the mason except for the gravitons. These are extended out from the mason in the three spatial dimensions and interlink with eachother to hold them in a rigid framework. Thus the masons form the nodes of the grid and the gravitons form the links. None of this is matter 'as we know it' - it is the underlying structure of space(and later space/time).
I use the term 'mason' to associate the ball of string (it's not a particle) with the source of mass but would be happy to change it to 'mazon' if the existing use results in conflict or confusion. Since it is the source of mass, it is the equivalent, in this paradigm, of the Higgs Boson but very different in concept. I argue that the Higgs will not be found by the LHC or any other real device as it is not a particle or even ordinary matter.
A particle is something that exists in the real world and is constructed of various combinations of string (but not like the string loops of string theory). It exists only for a very short time (the Planck time?) when the strings are emitted from the masons. This emission is initiated by the collapse of the particle's wave function which happens when the probability function exceeds a critical value. This (generally) only happens when two particles collide (i.e. their wave forms overlap) in the presence of a chronon (the time string). The exception is radioactive decay (the weak force) where the critical value is exceed by a single particle in the presence of a chronon.
Gravity is the effect (it's not a force) of the bending of the gravitational field in the presence of mass. Why does it bend? The wave forms which transmit the information about particles vary in frequency and amplitude. These are transmitted through the gravitational field by vibration of the gravitons which connect the masons. A large vibration represents a large mass. The bigger the amplitude of the vibration the greater the tension on the gravitons which consequently pull the masons together creating distortion of the gravitation field and hence gravity which is simply matter following the shortest path in the distorted GF. This explains why it is so weak in comparison with the other 'forces'.
Read this short resume whilst looking at the diagrams in my article (print the Word version) and tell me what you think. Also should I change 'mason' to 'mazon' or even 'maison'?
regards
Felix
PS - would you prefer to transfer this discussion to my own thread?
PPS - I am aware of a particle group called 'mesons' but don't think the term 'mason' has been used in the standard model before???