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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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While I'm thinking about it let me toss in:
No detectible edge and ripples in the cosmic microwave background radiation
At the instant of the big bang all the EEPs are highly excited as they burst out of confinement and shoot away from the compacted center. Their relative movement is chaotic as they are again traveling at the speed of light and colliding and bumping around in a fight with each other for their own space. Because of the chaos, their interactions are primarily collisions at this point. As the highly excited core breaks through the outer layers of the big crunch, their extreme excitement negates any EEP groups that may still exist in the outer layers, causing all of the matter in the big crunch to be reduced to free EEPs.
Vacuum energy determines a proclivity as to where the EEP chaos will go. Obviously they won’t tend to return to the center of the crunch, they will tend to go away from the center of the crunch, out to areas where the matter energy density of EEPs is lower and the vacuum energy density is higher.
The migration from the center will continue until the positive pressure and the negative pressure are equalized a trillion years later and that will correspond with the time that it takes for the arena of vacuum energy to be filled and homogeneity and isotropy of the arena to be restored. Such equilibrium is theory though and not reality, because in the process of refilling the arena of vacuum energy, EEPs will have been interacting and forming groupings and atomic particles, and helium and hydrogen, and gas clouds and stars, and galaxies, all moving within the expanding bubble of EEPs that were casually connected at the instant of the big bang and separated from the greater universe by this arena of vacuum energy. Only when the arena is filled and the vacuum energy is used up does the big bang lose its local identity and become merged and mingled with the greater universe.
While it retains its local identity, i.e. while the arena of vacuum energy exists and separates the local expansion from the greater universe, there is no identifiable edge of expansion. Everything seems to be moving away from everything else because the vacuum energy is casually connected just like the matter energy is casually connected to the big bang. Particles moving into the vacuum energy are being sucked away from the particles behind them so that they accelerate relative to the particles behind them in the expansion. Groupings of EEPs that are formed in the process are carried along with the expansion and appear to be moving away from other groupings that form behind them in the expanding area of matter energy and out into the contracting area of vacuum energy.
In fact as the matter energy expands out into the vacuum energy, the matter energy encounters other matter energy that was in the grasp of the big crunch but never quite made it into the crunch by the instant of the bang. These encounters cause ripples in the consistency of the expanding matter energy out into the vacuum energy and appear even today as slight variances in the cosmic microwave background radiation.