The Higgs are not All Right

     

(The existence of the Higgs Boson was confirmed with sigma 5 certainty July 4th, 2012 at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland)  

      The Higgs Boson (discovered July 4th, 2012) was the brainchild of Dr. Peter Higgs, who mathematically theorized that such a particle could exist in 1964 and gained much support for his theory due to his strong mathematical proof.  But what is true on paper so often does not come to fruition.  Dr. Higgs theorized that the whole universe is occupied by a Higgs field and that these Higgs bosons attach to particles at varying abundance and by doing this they essentially weigh the particles down and give them their relative mass.  This at first seems like a likely idea. It makes sense to the common man and seems to follow classical Newtonian physics.  But unfortunately this is a step in the wrong direction and shifts thinking back towards an outdated paradigm.  Not that the discovery does not allow for a more complete model but that this model causes physics to be a diminished to a game of fill in the dots.  Physicists have perhaps become to enwrapped finding all the particle pieces of the standard model that they have gone away from describing how the world actually operates.  They have become categorizes not theorizers.  And with the discovery of the Higgs Boson we seem to be falling further into a world of objectivity.  On the other hand Einstein was a step in the right direction away from Newtonian physics.  Einstein taught us about relativity and the bending of time and space by matter; that these dimensions are somehow affected by matter and are warped in its presence.  But the answer to how matter warps space and time cannot be explained by another particle but instead by the addition of another dimension.  And just as the 3 spatial dimensions and time dimension are seemingly inherent to matter without the need for another particle to explain them, so is the gravitational dimension.  There is no gravitational force…gravity is merely the effects of another dimension warping the movements of objects.  This warping of 3 dimensions can be seen in the warping of two. 

        A plane travels from New York to London and a passenger watches the trip represented by a line on a flat screen GPS.  The passenger expects to see a straight line from New York to London on the GPS because everyone knows that the quickest distance from point A to point B is a straight line.  But this is not what he sees.  Instead there is a arch on his GPS showing the plane first heading northeast until it turns and heads southeast towards London.  The passenger believes that he had lost precious time by traveling north and south instead of due east.  But he is wrong, the plane did travel in the shortest possible path and actually got to London quicker than if had gone due east.  In fact all planes travel in these arching paths and they are referred to as, Great Circles.  Essentially, these Great Circles are straight lines around the curved Earth, or bands around the earth.  And they only seem the longer path on the GPS because the flat GPS leaves out the 3rd dimension of space.  This left out dimension is what warps the path and if we were living in “Flat Land” we might see the paths of these planes and assume there is some force causing them to be warped.  But we would be wrong.  We would simply be seeing the effects of a hidden dimension.  And this is the same problem we are facing in our 3 spatial and one time dimensional world.  We are seeing the effect of a hidden dimension; inherent to matter that is affecting the paths of objects. 

       But how does this dimension arise simply from matter existing?  All dimensions are dependent upon matter and their relative location to each other.  Without matter we would have no reference for up, down, left, right, back, forth or even present and future.  Why cannot a gravitational dimension be similarly inherent?  And the more matter you have the more this dimension asserts itself.  Is this not the same with all dimensions?  The larger a object is or the more object there are the more the 3 dimensions of space seem to show their face.  And so the larger an object is or the more objects there are the more the gravitational dimension plays a role. 

      This gravitational dimension could also explain the dissipating effect of gravity over space.  Just as the further you are from a object the less the dimensions of it becomes clear so does the gravitational dimension becomes less involved.  Stars are no longer 3 dimensional giants at a distance but instead 1 dimensional points in the sky and a globular cluster is not a three dimensional cloud but instead a 2 dimensional tapestry.  Dimensions fade over space. 

The gravitational force we thought existed is simply the warping of straight lines by the gravitational dimension.  This is by no means a full theory but it does answer some unanswered questions and bring up many unasked ones.  Science cannot advance without a paradigm shift away from classical physics.  This theory might answer the gravitation question with, “them more you Matter, the more you Matter.”  But it leaves us with the question.  What’s the Matter?

-by: Brett Vollert