WEAK FORCE IVBs, NEUTRINOS, AND
INFORMATION
(IVBs = "Intermediate Vector Bosons": the strange, massive field
vectors (force carriers) of the weak force)
John A. Gowan
January 2016
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In the domain of the weak force, we find two types of elementary
particles: 1) the (relatively) massive electrically charged
leptons (electron, muon, tau); 2) their associated "identity
charges", the (relatively) massless and electrically neutral
neutrinos. Neutrinos are the "bare" identity charges of their
massive leptonic namesakes, one for each type of massive
lepton (the electron, muon, or tau neutrino). Although the three
types of neutrinos resonate from one identity to another while in
flight (apparently because their only distinguishing
characteristic is a slight (?) difference in mass), they will only
interact with their own specific massive and charged namesakes,
during transformations or the creation/destruction of single
leptonic elementary particles. Neutrino "identity charges"
(the characteristic charge of the weak force) provide the
foundation for the information content of the Cosmos - just as the
weak force
asymmetry provides the matter surplus of the Cosmos.
Resonance phenomena between the three neutrino types (see the
magazine Nature, June 5, 2012) suggests not only that
there is not much to distinguish them from each other, but also
that they are indeed one of the symmetry groups of
light - perhaps the most fundamental of the lot.
We have already
noted the strange fact that the "W" IVB, which weighs the
equivalent of about 80 proton masses, is required to regulate the
creation, transformation, or destruction of single charged
leptons, even though an electron is lighter than a proton by a
factor of about 1800. We have explained
this enormous "overkill" of available energy as due to the
necessity to return to the original environment in which electrons
were created, in order to ensure that every electron ever made -
past, present, or future - is absolutely identical (for reasons of
energy and symmetry conservation - for example, they must always
be able to annihilate with an exact antimatter counterpart, or
replace one another seamlessly in any interaction).
With respect to the neutrinos, whose mass is still unknown but may
be as little as one-millionth that of an electron, we find an even
more extreme mismatch between the "Z" neutral IVB and the
particles whose transformations it regulates: the "Z" neutral IVB
weighs about 90 proton masses. As in the case of the "W" IVB, we
explain the huge mass of the "Z" as necessary to recreate the
original energy environment in which neutrinos were created, and
for the same reason: within type, every neutrino ever created -
past, present, and future - must be exactly alike. If this
hypothesis is correct, it suggests that the neutrinos were created
before the massive leptons, in an earlier, smaller, and hotter
universe, closer in time to the actual origin of everything -
perhaps even before charged particles existed. In the modern
universe, the "Z" can also mediate other weak force interactions,
not involving neutrinos, providing there is no change in electric
charge. In a
related interpretation, the "Z" is more massive than the "W"
because it mediates a greater diversity and range of interactions
than the "W" - in fact, any electrically neutral interaction among
the quarks, leptons, and neutrinos that might threaten the
integrity and conservation of identity charge. Because the Higgs
boson is heavier still than the "Z", this must mean (following the
foregoing interpretation), that the Higgs precedes the IVBs in
time, lying closer to the "Big Bang" in a hotter, denser, and
smaller Cosmos. The Higgs marks the threshold of the Electroweak
unified energy domain, and in this respect, determines the masses
of the weak force IVS. The IVBs in turn, determine the masses of
the elementary leptons and quarks. It seems likely that several
heavier versions of the Higgs exist, delimiting still earlier eras
of the Cosmos in which leptoquarks, quarks, and matter-only
protons are created. See: Table of the
Higgs Cascade").
The sense of this chronology is that the identity charge must be
present before (or at least simultaneous with) the arrival of the
massive lepton it will delimit and characterize. The mold must
pre-exist the substance poured into it. The massive leptons
would not "know" what form to take without the neutrinos to
guide them. The presence of the neutrino precludes potential chaos
during the initial "packaging" of energy into discreet, massive
leptons during the Big Bang. Think for a minute, and you will
realize that "Identity" is, and must be, matter's most primitive
and basic charge (otherwise matter could neither recognize nor
annihilate with antimatter - energy, symmetry, and charge
conservation would be lost). How our universe manages to achieve
conservation despite its glaring "matter-only" asymmetric
composition is the major subject of this website. (The charges of
matter are the symmetry debts of light).
In the spirit of
General Systems in which this webpage is founded, I wish to
note the following concordance: neutrinos are evidently the first
elements of information to appear in our cosmos, and as we have
suggested above, necessarily pre-exist the massive elementary
leptonic particles for which they provide "identity charges"
(implicit in the massive leptons, explicit in the neutrinos). To
use an analogy, it is almost as if the neutrinos are the "souls"
of the massive particles they code for - presenting us with a
natural example of Platonic dualism. While the rational mind has
only recently discovered massive leptons, neutrinos, identity
charges, and the scientific concept of "Information", the
intuitive mind long ago recognized the fundamental ontogeny of the
cosmos in a single, simple statement: "In the beginning was the
word".
Further in the same vein: when Moses asks God what his name
(identity) is, God replies: "I am that I am". This is nothing less
than a statement of absolute identity, sufficient unto itself,
underived from any prior, higher, or more universal source. God
simply IS, and cannot be encompassed, captured, or otherwise
diminished by a name or category. When we refer to God, we refer
to that which cannot be named. God is simply the
"Almighty", the "First Cause" or "Prime Mover", the "One", the
"Creator". We are all subdivisions of the eternal and universal "I
AM", the everlasting, living identity of the cosmic "Creative
Principle".
And what are we to make of the notion that humanity is created in
the "image and likeness" of God? To me, this suggests the idea of
God as the central, single, all-encompassing "Identity" of the
Cosmos, from which the souls (identities) of his creations are
derived - much as the "Big Bang" is the central single source of
the neutrinos bearing identity charges of the elementary particles
they will help create. We are created in the image and likeness of
our universe. This is something Chardin
understood.
References:
Matthew Cobb: "Life's Greatest Secret". Basic Books,
2015 (good discussion of the "information" concept
in the biological sciences)
Ray Jayawardhana: "Neutrino Hunters". 2013,
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: "The Phenomenon of Man". French:
Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1955; English: Harper and Row, New York,
1959
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