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Gauge games in a unified field theory

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Channel: Doug Sweetser · 2009 · Science & Technology

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Please see the "GEM Blog: GEM Unification Rescinded, Officially" video.

This talk discusses gauge games, the kinds of properties an action must have so that particles traveling at the speed of light c can interact with massive particles.  This is done in the standard model via the Higgs mechanism. I describe a collection of variations on the Maxwell action that together make up my unified field theory hypothesis. Quaternions are used in the Maxwell action which is identical to the standard approach using tensors.  The quaternions can be written to represent the groups of the standard model, U(1), SU(2), and SU(3).  By using hypercomplex multiplication rules, field equations consistent with Newton's law and special relativity can be derived using the Euler-Lagrange equations. The method for making all these actions invariant under a gauge transformation is the same: subtract it away.  One can therefore take the EM density which is not symmetric under a gauge transformation, then subtract away the gravity density which likewise is not symmetric, but the result is symmetric.  This is achieved without using the Higgs mechanism.  I predict the LHC will not detect the Higgs particle.  The field equations for the unified GEM hypothesis look like Newton's second law: the charge density equals the second time derivative of the scalar field.

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