Friday, May 23, 2014

The physics Stack Exchange generally screws things up

Here is the question:

  1. What is the precise definition of unification of fields (in classical and quantum mechanics)?
  2. In general, does unification of a field mean that we can write both of them at both sides of an equation (like Maxwell's laws)? Or does it mean that one of them can produce the other (like E and B)?
  3. Is there any intuitive explanation of how electroweak unification works? Like an electric charge will feel a weak field or that a flavoured particle will produce a weak field?

The answer:

1) The precise answer to the nification of fields is that they cannot be eliminated in totla as engineering approximations
2) The unification of field means that the correct theory can be degenerated into the engineering approximations.
3) Yes, the electro weak mechanism is simply another axis of symmetry along which the density of the vacuum can be maintained with the Higgs density.  The unified electro weak would be the biggest sphere achievable with one axis of symmetry. It likely never existed as there is no spectral moment in the thing that would support any space gradient strong enough to accumulate that phase imbalance. In other terms, a single mode wave, at the exchange rate of the most irrational numbers, has variations up to one half the size of packed matter.  That is not stable.

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