reply to post by Evasius
It's interesting when you look at your illustration and compare that to the idea of
Supersymmetry (which I think was mentioned earlier). I also have been reading about the Higgs
Boson with regards to quantum mechanics. Scientists at Berkley talk about it a little bit in this
Berkley - Introduction to Supesymmetry .
We know that our Universe is filled with a mysterious condensate of Higgs boson, which disturbs matter particles and forces, not letting them go
far and hence making them massive. For example, the carrier of the weak force, W boson, bumps on the Higgs condensate all the time, and the force has
become short-ranged, extending only over a thoughsandth of the size of nuclei. All masses of known elementary particles must have come from the Higgs
boson. However, the mass of the Higgs boson receives a large contribution from its interaction with itself making it impossible for us to study
physics at smaller distances. Because the gravity is believed to be unified with other forces at an extremely small distance called Planck length ,
the marriage between quantum mechanics and gravity appears a remote dream.
I can't help but wonder if the Higgs Boson doesn't play a bigger role than the scientists think. Since all elementary particles in the universe
only exist because of the Higgs Boson, it could be that the Higgs Boson actually represents linear time on subatomic levels/planck scales. Which then
become amplified and/or altered with regards to mass since all elementary particles get their mass from the Higgs Boson. Of coarse, as the overview
sais, its impossible to test alot of these theories because of the miniscule sizes we're talking about. But if you think about it, it would explain
alot. Since all elementary particles in the universe get their mass from the Higgs Boson, perhaps the areas of the universe that are devoid of
elementary particles and/or subatomic particles of any kind are what we now call "dark matter" where the Higgs Boson energy exists as mass alone
without any kind of matter to produce it.
It would be alot harder to connect the Higgs Boson to Dark Energy though. Dark energy just seems so much more bizarre and mysterious. But, since
I'm thinking about it right now, maybe Dark Energy simply represents the tiny (much smaller than the nucleus of an atom) spaces in between the
elementary particles and higgs bosons that are devoid of time or anything. You might be asking yourself how this could translate to Dark Energy being
evenly distributed throughout the universe and expanding the universe so rapidly at the same time. But perhaps these tiny Dark Energy areas are
simply energy in pure form that "fizzles" as they reach zero point. In doing so, they would release an immense amount of energy, yes??! That would
explain the even distrubution as well as why they are so tiny, exist for such a tiny fraction of a second, but produce such an immense amount of
collective energy throughout the universe that they are speeding up the overall expansion.
-ChriS
[edit on 20-4-2009 by BlasteR]