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Testing A Conjecture On Quantum Electrodynamics
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: Received: 30 January 2022 / Approved: 4 February 2022 / Online: 4 February 2022 (10:50:03 CET)
How to cite: Schiller, C. Testing A Conjecture On Quantum Electrodynamics. Preprints 2022, 2022020071. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202202.0071.v1 Schiller, C. Testing A Conjecture On Quantum Electrodynamics. Preprints 2022, 2022020071. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202202.0071.v1
Abstract
A geometric Planck-scale model of quantum electrodynamics is tested against observations. Based on Dirac’s proposal to describe spin 1/2 particles as tethered objects, elementary fermions are conjectured to be fluctuating rational tangles with unobservable tethers. As Battey-Pratt and Racey showed, when such tangles propagate, they obey the free Dirac equation. Classifying rational tangles yields the observed spectrum of elementary fermions. Classifying deformations of tangle cores yields exactly three types of gauge interactions. They exchange three types of elementary gauge bosons and have the symmetry groups U(1), broken SU(2) and SU(3). The possible rational tangles for fermions, Higgs and gauge bosons allow only the observed Feynman diagrams. The complete Lagrangian of the standard model arises, including the Lagrangian of quantum electrodynamics. Over 50 tests of the tangle model are deduced. They include details on the perturbation expansion of the g-factor and the existence of limit values for electric and magnetic fields. Measurements agree with most tests, though this could change in the future. Some tests are genuine predictions that still need to be checked. In particular, the geometry of the process occurring at QED interaction vertices suggests an ab-initio estimate for the fine structure constant. In addition, the average geometric shapes of the elementary particle tangles suggest ab-initio lower and upper limits for the mass values of the electron and the other leptons.
Keywords
quantum electrodynamics; electron mass; fine structure constant; strand conjecture; tangle model.
Subject
Physical Sciences, Particle and Field Physics
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