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AGPhil: Arbeitsgruppe Philosophie der Physik

AGPhil 17: Quantum and Gravity

AGPhil 17.1: Talk

Friday, March 22, 2024, 09:30–10:00, PTB SR AvHB

A dual space concept for particle models — •Hans-Dieter Herrmann — Berlin

Leptons and quarks are considered to be point-like and elementary in space-time, however extended and composite in a circular basic space. The basic space represents an eigenspace connected to the particle structure. The philosophical foundation of this concept is discussed at different levels of reality, such as the atomic, molecular, macromolecular, micro-organismic, organismic, and socio-cultural levels (see Philarchive: https://philarchive.org/archive/HERACQ).

At the subatomic level, an attempt was made to construct basic space models of composite leptons, ground state mesons, and baryons. Such models reproduce static properties, such as mass, charge, spin and magnetic moments, in reasonable agreement with the observed values. A universal mass quantum is proposed to be approximately 1/32 of the muon mass. Mass quanta of positive and negative sign may compensate each other, leading to the vanishing masses of neutrinos and the small mass of the electron.

The building stones of the models in basic space are rotons, entities with circulating masses and charges. Structures consisting of at least two rotons (birotons) represent particles observable in space-time. Single mono-rotons of positive and negative energy are suspected of representing dark matter and dark energy. They cannot be detected directly in space-time, but interact by gravitation.

Keywords: dual-space concept; levels of reality; geometric particle model; cylindrical eigenspace; dark matter