The mnp Model An Attempt to Create a Radically Reduced Instruction Set for the Universe - or - Three Entities, Three Effects, One Universe An Architecture for the Fine Grained Structure of Everything Gregg Hauser Draft 20b: 2012-12-12 Abstract The mnp Model is offered as a conceptual structure for understanding the universe. The mnp Model has two principles, three new and tiny entities, and three new and short range interactions between those entities. The principles, entities, and effects are explained. The effect directions and ranges and how those effects work and lead to the basic structures of matter and fields are shown. The many failures considered in the development of the mnp Model are also documented, both to support the effectiveness of the current conceptual structure and in hopes that others can critique and avoid the dead ends encountered. Some of physic's givens, such as mass, movement and the Lorentz transformations involved, inertia, conversion of mass and energy, fields from moving masses and moving charges, relativistic mass, quark charge, nucleon structure, weak and strong interactions, have simple geometric explanations in the mnp Model. MUCH work remains. The Model initially avoids the use of familiar terms for new concepts, hence terms \entities" for tiny particles, “effects” or interactions instead of forces. The Model is considered by the author to be \almost complete" in concept, lacking any \proof of concept" in the form of calculation and modeling. The documents are currently undergoing remodeling based on a new image of the effect leading to gravity, on a new image of the structure of electrons and the charge structure of quarks, on a new image of the unification of weak and strong forces, and on a change in the image of the basic structure of neutrinos. Gravity, electro-static, magnetic, electro-magnetic, weak, and strong forces are described. Residual Strong Force is still poorly understood. Tiny neutrinos remain a mystery. Vestiges of the \old" Model and old vocabulary remain. Abstract - long form The mnp Model is new and not new. \No one is thinking like this," yet preon models were considered in the 1980's. String theory and quantum loop gravity have been seeking simplicity and descriptive power for some time. Poincar´e's\New Mechanics" of 1905, often referred to as LET or Lorentz Ether Theory, is considered experimentally indistinguishable from Special Relativity though SR is currently preferred. The mnp Model contains interesting suggestions for many current puzzles but also challenges orthodoxy in many ways. The conceptual structure is used to describe photons, charge, magnetism, electrons, and Dirac spin. The \hidden variable" in paired particles is explained. A structure is proposed for muons and small and large quarks. A reordering of generations of quarks is suggested. The mnp Model suggests gravity results in a non-intuitive way from the tendency of the entities to align their direction of travel. Densities never become infinite. Light is seen as \slowing" passing a mass by taking a longer route. Particles in deep space may accelerate significantly if already traveling toward the mass, black holes are porous but destroy \elementary" particles, and extra dimensions do not seem to be needed to explain current experiment. Dark matter and energy are pictured as unorganized accumulations of the basic entities. The photon of optics is shown as having structure, constantly creating magnetic and electric fields which then propagate and attenuate themselves. Those fields help organize the entities into a complete photon when it is first created. The mnp Model 1 2012-12-12 Hauser electric and magnetic fields also influence (mostly subsequent) photons. Photons continue to create new fields as they travel. Fields have no net translation or spin but do have structure, so do not affect or take energy from the particles that create them until a disturbance or measurement is made. Due to the stochastic nature of interactions in the mnp Model, the probabilistic nature of the fields and the location of the photon as described in QED are not supplanted. The mnp Model does provide descriptions of charge and electromagnetism that should eventually become visible and accessible to the merely gifted student. The author claims careful consideration of the double slit experiment led to this new structural image of the photon and its fields. Time dilation is a function of the structure of matter and movement at all speeds. Length compression must occur if the basic entities and their coiled organization is preserved. The basic entities have a constant speed, so rest mass derives from rotating in place. Motion and kinetic energy arise from redirecting those entities, which at c no longer rotate and so have no \resting" mass. This differs, to the author's dismay, from modern descriptions of energy, momentum and mass. The Model's description of time dilation and length contraction are consistent with the Michelson-Morley experiments and the very precise successors, but suggest a non-relativistic interpretation. One way speed of light experiments, considered impossible by many, are not accurate enough to measure the tiny differences in the measured speed of light due to the earth's rotation and orbit expected by the Model. The electron is described as a hollow surface with a single flat coiled filament made up of negative charge entities, with spin either right or left, capable of expanding in a shell, twisting into higher energy shells, responding to spin measurements, reverting quickly to a tiny sphere, and maintaining its unity at relativistic speeds. The Model suggests that the basic structural unit of particles is a loop of charge material 1/6 of an elementary charge which combine as six loops into a strand with hexagonal cross section to form the structure of electrons, positrons, and the small quarks through strange. The Model describes the weak force as exchange of charge material loops, the strong force as the same process interrupted by the presence of a compatible third quark, and the spontaneous appearance of positron-electron pairs as similar to neutron decay. The Model suggests why nucleons tend to be left handed in our region of the universe, and attempts to suggest why up, down, and electrons predominate over anti-up, anti-down, and positrons, at least in our region of the universe. The Model suggests a structural nature of muons, W and Z bosons as being similar to the quarks, though it has no need for elusive mediators. Some of the newest material is in Appendix C, \Current Blog Articles." Appendix A addresses many of the \unsolved problems in physics" with comments of varying quality, from interesting to wild guessing. The mnp Model does not yet include relative magnitudes of the forces or distances over which the three effects operate. The \size" or \mass" or \count" of figments need not be determined until the Model is complete and ready to be scaled to the real universe. The mnp Model insists that ALL distances of interaction will be small and ALL forces will act locally. Determining the details and magnitudes of the Computational mnp Model will take some time. Other models and theories of unification may benefit from the mnp Model's investigation of relevant phenomena and its structural explanations of perceived distance effects and spacial distortions. The Standard Model might even benefit from an approach based on spin connection and sixths of an elementary charge \mixed in a way we cannot see." This could make current particle theory and QCD interesting. If the strong force arises due to incomplete exchange of quantized sixths and the weak force from complete exchange, bringing calculation to a simplified Quantum Chromo Dynamics might be possible, though this requires seeing the weak and strong forces as contact rather than mediated interactions. Thanks to the Giants The author thanks the giants who have done so much careful experimentation and the giants who have worked to explain the experimental results and who have provided the vocabulary, grammar, and mathematics to describe those results. If the mnp Model cannot eventually confirm those experimental results and predict others, its conceptual beauty will be for naught. The author can be contacted through the blog mnpmodel.blogspot.com or the gmail address mnpmodel. mnp Model 2 2012-12-12 Hauser Contents Abstract . .1 List of Figures . .5 Version Release Notes . .6 1 Introduction 11 Conventions . 12 Predecessors to the mnp Model............................................. 13 mnp Model Must Arrive Fully Formed - As A Quantum . 13 When Does a Model Deserve Attention? . 13 When Does a Model Deserve Serious Attention? - The Big Five . 14 When Does a Model Deserve Acceptance? . 14 When Does a Model Deserve Publication in the Popular Press? . 15 When Does a Model Start to Look Viable? . 15 Getting Started With mnp ............................................... 15 2 mnp Model Summary 16 Principles . 16 Effects........................................................... 17 3 mnp Building Blocks 19 4 Thinking in the mnp Model 22 Mental Leaps Required in a Structural Model (2012-10-22) . 22 Counter Intuitive Effects of Effects Requires New Thought Patterns . 25 5 Familiar \Elementary Particles" in the mnp Model 27 Light is a \Particle" that Creates Fields and Waves and is then Influenced . 27 Electrons . 28 Paired Particles . 29 Neutrinos in the mnp Model............................................... 29 6 Fields and Traditional Forces in the mnp Model 31 Movement and Time Dilation . 32 Fine-Structure Constant in the mnp Model ...................................... 39 Strong Nuclear Force in the mnp Model........................................ 40 Electro-Weak Force in the mnp Model (2012-12-12) . 40 Weak Force in the mnp Model (2012-12-11) . 40 Gravity in the mnp Model................................................ 42 7 Phenomena, Large and Small, in the mnp Model 43 Dark Matter in the mnp Model............................................. 43 Black Holes in the mnp Model ............................................