I did some research to understand the apparent difference between real and virtual photons. This has to be understood since radiation pressure and charge repulsion are models of each, respectively, and are fundamentally different from each other. Radiation pressure is quantized by E=hv and charge repulsion is not–a great example of the particle vs. wave dichotomy. My effort to find a basis for the particle zoo entities has to model this correctly. I have been trying to force-fit the unitary twist vector field into a particle zoo model, but ran into the issue of how to model charge and radiation pressure, or more precisely, the particle vs. wave behavior in real or virtual particles.
I had suspected that I was running into a definition problem: the difference has to do with the mistake of trying to describe real and virtual particles classically. At this tiny scale, defining a point can only be done with probability distributions–a more concrete definition doesn’t work because the actual entity doesn’t exist that way. QFT has various means of computing expected interactions in spite of that, but those of us insisting on a more detailed underlying structure are going to find ourselves without an infrastructure to derive results (and rolled eyes from the researches who understand this). I think I get the picture. The two types of interaction are different, but attempting to model the difference must take into account that geometric definitions such as the unitary twist vector field can’t model the entities very well if at all–the best we can do is the diffuse equations of probability distributions. I got hung up on trying to explain charge and virtual photons and the apparent point size of electrons via the unitary twist vector field, but now I see I really can’t do that.
Unfortunately, probability distributions have yet to show us why we have the particle masses and charge forces of reality. It will require a different approach than what I am doing to get there, though–a unitary rotation vector field might be a starting point, but I’m going to have to rethink the model. The only two clues I have found, other than what we already know from the Standard Model and quantum field theory, is that everything must consist of some type of wave (see this paper):
and the quantization implied from E=hv (see this post):
agemoz.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/unifying-the-em-interactions/
It’s back to square one. I suppose the one good thing is now I know a little more than I did before…
Agemoz
Tags: particle zoo, physics, quantum, quantum theory, special relativity
Agemoz's Physics Blog 
Leave a comment