Ring Theory - a TOE

[mike@mlawrence.co.uk]

Ring Theory in a Nutshell - any comments????

Assume the universe is composed only of Planck unit-sized volumes of nothing; but that each unit volume is separable into preon particle and anti-particle of equal and opposite Planck charges and Planck masses. Assume that like charges repel, unlike attract and that like masses attract and unlike chase to maintain separation and energy. Assume that as unit volumes are separated out, each preon starts spinning at the same rate.
Chasing will cause the formation of chains of alternating particle and anti-particle, each chasing the one in front and chased by the one behind. Chains will eventually form loops as heads catch tails. A loop of six is the strongest configuration, which will break any other sized loop and will become the only size existing. Time starts when loops form and a loop of six is called a ring. Formation of rings at the Planck energy/Planck radius followed by physical interaction between rings could have expanded the rings to their present sizes very quickly, called inflation, without external motion of those rings.
If the orientation of the spinning axis of each preon is aligned with the chasing preon, there are only eight different electrostatic charge combinations possible for a ring of six preons when the preon spinning energy has a value of ± 1/6 qc3. The eight combinations represent the quarks and leptons. The rotational energy of the rings is currently called ‘spin ½ ‘ and is shown by the angular momentum h of each preon multiplied by the observational Thomas precession factor ½ , the ring frequency currently being ignored. The same internal energy is the ‘mass’ of the ring, being h multiplied by the frequency at which the ring rotates w. For each preon h = M v r inside the ring.
The constant ½ hq/(2p) is the same for all charged rings, due to charge and mass separately and shows that the muon and tau leptons are simply larger mass, smaller ring radius, electrons. The same is the case for families or ‘flavours’ of all rings.
The generation of magnetic moment due to both charge and mass enables a simple framework for the respective masses and magnetic moments of the proton and neutron.
The positioning of ± 1/6 q charges within the rings leads to symmetries. All charged leptons and some neutrinos are symmetric or ‘colourless’. All other rings are asymmetric, mostly with 3 and 2 fold asymmetries ie have ‘colour’. Stacking rings can balances out asymmetries between some rings, giving rise to 2 and 3 ring stack combinations that are overall symmetric or colourless. These combinations are always integer or zero electronic charge. Symmetric rings contain 3 fold symmetries, even though they are hidden, so electron and neutrino rings can exist in stacks. All isomers of each different ring have the same energy if they are the same ring radius.
A photon is a stack of particle and anti-particle ring, rotating in the same sense, where each preon has merged with its partner in the opposite ring to reform the original unit volume of space. Longer stacks include the proton and neutron of 9 rings and the stack framework enables the KL and KS to be the same mass and yet have different parities.
There are eight energies that exist within a ring, with four due to charge and four to mass that balance each other. Of each, two are due to the size of the preon and its spinning frequency and the other two due to these and the velocity of the preon around the ring. The measurement of the preon velocity (ring frequency) by external observers is what drives relativity.
In order for all rings to be stable, regardless of the different energies present, the energy of a body due to the presence of charge and mass must be increased or reduced using a ‘field’ formula on a product basis, not a summation of potentials, which also eliminates infinities. Identical treatment of mass and charge energies in this way leads to all the accepted energies of particle systems from atomic to planetary. The introduction of the concept of ‘motional’ energy enables the formation of zero energy of motion and position states (ZEMPs) where QM energy levels are replicated as one side of each ZEMP. Without energy, there is no time related to these states even though they exist within a relativistic energy framework.
As can be seen, the concepts of particle mass, electric charge, particle spin, time, colour, and flavour acquire meaning only at the level of the composite systems. For a ring, of observed mass mr composed of preons of mass ± Mo each traveling at velocity v inside the ring, Er = mr c2 = Mo v2.

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Hope you like it.....
Mike

[baudrunner]

A couple of things, Mike.

Stay with the original thread you created. I understand that you are new to ToeQuest but it serves no purpose to continue creating new threads when all additional comments can be attached to the thread which describes your theory and which you started three threads ago. Create a new thread only when you are starting a new topic. Click on the little square icon beside the Thanks button at the bottom right of your posts to respond to posts.

I have read most of your online paper. It is interesting, and sporadically contains some brilliant seeds of thought worthy of further investigation, perhaps even hinting at the true nature of, well, nature.

Ring theory, like string theory, cannot of course be tested, and therefore remains but an interesting sidebar to the fundamental premise of quantum theory which has already proved itself. I cannot help but be skeptical, however. There are other interesting theories which share the stage with ring theory, and probably as many counter theories to refute them.

I honestly can't wrap my head around ring theory, however, because I can't see how the early Universe could have begun expanding in all directions wherein the fundamental constituents, or rings as you describe them, of what become matter are merely two-dimensional constructs.

You touch on the photon as virtual photon particle. Yet all the evidence that has been demonstrated confirm Einstein's perception that photons are merely quanta of energy which are undefined as such and which are as quickly re-absorbed as they are emitted. They are like chips off the blocks that are atoms and that reassemble themselves into the whole as quickly as they are given off. We have no evidence to presume otherwise and plenty to confirm this. This makes them not virtual at all just the same, but quite real.

[mike@mlawrence.co.uk]

baudrunner, thanks for the nice comments. What I posted was only the preon version of the theory and avoids mentioning the more (!!) difficult to face parts. So what has been posted is very close to current ideas, but viewed from a slightly shifted standpoint, so I hoped at least partially acceptable. What happens at the start of the universe, I think, is the formation of a 'rip' - which in my terms is the unmerging of one ZMBH (the units of the universe, that are unit volumes, not 2 dimensional) - this sets of many more unmerging events and lots of meons rushing around. Since they all unmerge at the same energy, then that energy is universal to all meons - and this is where I think we get the fine structure constant (or at least 1/6 sqrt(a/2pi)). The meons chase opposite type meons. Two same type meons have absolutely no effect on each other. The chasing forms chains of alternating type meons, each chasing the one in front. The chains break/reform and end up as either 4-meon or 6-meon loops. The 6-meons loops have charges 1, 2/3, 1/3 and 0. This is our matter. The 4-meon loops I think are dark matter because they cannot synchronize with any 6-meon loops (except in only one case of opposite rotating (rotation of a loop is spin 1/2) neutrinos, which can form a short stack of 2 loops). But 4-meon and 6-meon loops can both form photons - which are a short stack of loop and anti-loop, rotating the same way. It's called ring theory because I call the 6-meon loops 'rings'. I say that our time started when loops formed, but not before. Then inflation is when the loops suddenly interact physically. Since they form at Planck energy (ring radius is Planck length), when they suddenly hit each other, the rings expand from 1 to the size we see now - eg electron about 10^23 Planck lengths radius. So inflation is the sudden expansion of rings - and the energy that is released then funds expansion of the universe itself. The reason for 3 families of quarks and leptons I think to be because there were different expansion/inflation amounts that affected the rings in each of the 3 physical dimensions. The families are not different rings, but different sizes of the same rings. I didn't say that the photon was a virtual particle. It is real. But the difference is that whereas in a single ring there are always unmerged meons, in the photon the meons have remerged into ZMBHs - which are also real, but because they have 'twist' (my name for meon spin) they cannot disappear into the background that they came from. The reason that the photon can reach light speed is because each meon in one ring is chasing it's opposite type partner meon in the anti-ring (as well as chasing its meon in front, in its own ring), so the two rings accelerate as much as they can in the local environment. But, like air providing a maximum velocity for a skydiver, there is a viscosity to the universe that gives a maximum velocity to any meon - that is what the local light speed is. Sorry for being so long here, but I hope you can see that what I suggest turns the idea of composite particles on its head. All rings have Planck mass black holes as constituents - actually the most dense black holes possible. What we see as the mass of the ring is the rotational frequency of those rings w multiplied by the angular momentum h of the meons. And this is much smaller than the Planck mass, except when w is the Planck frequency. Hope this helps understand a bit better.
Mike

[baudrunner]

Nope, it doesn't. But that's okay.

At the first moment at which that quantum fluctuation occurs, expansion takes root, and continues to do that.

Carl Sagan opened and closed his infamous documentary series with a scene wherein he sat before a shut crude wooden access gate, between the slats of which intense beams of light poured through. We were suggestively invited to ponder on the beginnings of time, when all was light - that is, photonic energy - the very manifestation of that ever expanding potential difference between nothing and something, which is infinite by definition. That's how and why it continues.

As I understand it, it is the collapse of this energy into the constituent components of reality which you are endeavoring to describe. Nobody will ever prove that, one way or the other, because the idea is untestable. I just hope that you're not ever wasting the wrong person's time over this.

[mike@mlawrence.co.uk]

baudrunner,
Thanks for the help again. What I suggest is not that the universe started as lots of light. Light is composed of the units of universe - the ZMBHs - 6 to each photon in a 6-ring photon, with 6 meons from each ring or anti-ring in the photon. The universe starts to give rise to matter and dark matter when the first ZMBHs break out into positive and negative meons. Then these form rings of 4 and 6 meons (4 as dark matter, 6 as the quarks and leptons). Then they inflate. The amount of inflation for eg the electron is about the same as the expected initial inflation at 10^23. So the electron is 10^23 times larger (in radius, but smaller in mass (frequency)) than it was at formation. This corresponds to inflation along one dimension. The inflation along the other two dimensions (for the + or - 1 charged ring) gives the muon and tau. The rings then begin to form whatever stacks they can and the universe starts to expand from here, using the energy liberated by the rings' inflation from Planck energy to eg electron energy. Photons are only one type of stack. So they are not th ebeginning, but just one type of Lego block formed along the way. I would hope not to waste anyone's time. Anyone reading my paper should see the relationships appear naturally, without forcing, and using only 1 2pi and the fine structure constant, plus 3 levels of inflation. If they read the other papers, they will see just how many things fit together and how many paradoxes are resolved when using a ring theory framework. Hope you see this too. Cheers. Mike

[baudrunner]

Yes, actually, I do see it.

Three dimensions of spacial displacement. Two sides to a plane. And so on, a natural progression, during which the principle of expansion naturally manifests as it unfolds.

The perpetuation of the creation process at the periphery is integral to my understanding of what constitutes the ideal model for the physical Universe. The original particle structures evolve within a temporal framework, the past of which has a relative relationship with the present in an eternally expanding newly created space - new, present, and old, all existing at the same time. All is doomed to expire in time, even as the newness is being created while the present moves always into the past, and the creation front creates ever outward and away.

I've decided that the truest way to tell someone the correct time of day is to say, "Same time as it was yesterday at this time." Otherwise, you would always be giving a dated report.