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Originally Posted by Nereid
In an article entitled "The Dawn of Physics Beyond the Standard Model", in the June 2003 issue of Scientific American, Gordon Kane describes the most favoured extension of the Standard Model (of particle physics), the Mimimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM).
He then briefly discusses how the MSSM might address one of particle physics' 'top problems' - extrapolation of the strengths of three forces (SM, weak, strong), to high temperature/energy regimes yields forces with identical strengths.
How does your EEP idea relate to this puzzle?
In the article, a brief discussion of "Ten Mysteries" follows. Kane makes the point that the Standard Model cannot address even one of these mysteries, but that the MSSM should be able to address all but four.
The six which the MSSM should be able to address are (in shorthand, same numbering as in the article):
1. Vacuum energy
3. Inflation
4. Matter-antimatter asymmetry
5. Dark matter
6. and 7. the Higgs.
How well does your EEP idea address each of these six?
The remaining four are (again, in shorthand):
2. Dark energy
8. Gravity
9. The masses of the quarks and leptons
10. Why are there three generations?
How well does your EEP idea address each of these four?
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Before I continue with the promised post on the period between the end of the inflationary epoch and the formation of stars, I want to address vacuum energy density.
VACUUM ENERGY DENSITY
Space is permeated with EEPs, the elementary energy wave particle. The EEPs are indivisible entities in and of themselves, but they can interact with each other to form massive objects.
To describe vacuum energy density I will introduce an environment of EEPs that theoretically could exist but in reality will never be found. Let’s refer to a huge patch of space as an arena. The arena that I will use to describe this particular environment of EEPs is the size of space necessary for every EEP in the known universe to be moving independently and freely at the speed of light and disbursed so the density of EEPs per cubic centimeter is in equilibrium with the amount of space in the arena, allowing EEPs to move and interact freely and consistently over the entire arena; evenly distributed throughout the arena in perfect balance with the available space, perfectly homogeneous and isotropic at an infinitesimal level.
EEPs have a natural tendency to interact with each other and to form groupings with the combined mass of the constituent EEPs. As the mass of the various combined EEP groupings increases, more and more EEPs and EEP groupings are attracted, and there are a growing number of patches that have higher EEP density than the surrounding ground state density. This tendency to interact and form growing masses, and for those masses to combine and attract more similar masses eventually results in various great attractors forming throughout the original arena.
These great attractors have a very high density of EEPs while the remainder of the arena has a very low EEP density. The relationship between the density of the growing masses and the density of the rest of the arena continues to diverge. The growing mass will eventually become a big crunch (destined to become a big bang) and will include such a high density of EEPs, that relative to the density of the surrounding arena, the crunch is nearly infinitely dense while the surrounding arena is relatively void.
At this point the surrounding arena is at maximum vacuum energy density and the crunch is at maximum matter energy density.
When the big bang occurs and the EEPs are freed in their highly excited state, the surrounding vacuum energy density is immediately employed to restore the equilibrium of the ground state by sucking highly excited and rapidly expanding EEPs back into the arena from which the big crunch was formed.
A crunch that may have taken ten trillion years to form, may expand and refill the arena in only a trillion years.