How IPP explains Quantum Mysteries

By Richard L. Ropiequet

On this website, I describe the novel intellectual tools of a new theoretical approach to physics, which I call Infinite Particle Physics (IPP). These tools give you, for the first time, the ability to visualize the three-dimensional shapes of photons, leptons, hadrons and nuclides. They also let you picture mentally the space structures and the mechanics of gravity, electro-magnetism, and the nuclear strong force, and even let you understand many of the mysteries that burden current physics pedagogy. Among these mysteries are:

Note: all of these mysteries are embedded with links.  Clicking on any one takes you to IPP’s explanation of that mystery. One caution: Some links are slightly out of register.  Please scroll up or down until you see the expected mystery number in parentheses.

    1. How can particles appear to be infinitesimal points, yet influence other matter to infinity?
    2. What is mass-energy, and why it is conserved?
    3. How do point-concentrations of mass-energy devolve into photons & particles?
    4. Why do photons and particles manifest wave-particle duality?
    5. What are the structures of gravitational fields?  Of electrostatic fields?  Of magnetic fields?
    6. What are the mechanics by which these fields interact with particles to create accelerations?
    7. What is the structure of particle momentum?
    8. What are the structures and mechanics of strong-force bonds?
    9. Why and how does a specific mixture of protons and neutrons self-organize into a ground state?
    10. Which nuclide structural features account for the various decay modalities?
    11. What processes or destabilizing agents induce nuclear & particle decays?
    12. What are the origins and structures of matter-waves?
    13. What are the mechanics of particle and nuclear spins?
    14. What is the interior structure of a black hole?
    15. What is the source of the dark matter in the universe?
    16. What is the most plausible cause of gamma-ray bursts and cosmic rays?
    17. What is the cause of Heisenberg’s Indeterminacy?
    18. What is the cause and structure of zero-point energy?
    19. How is hydrogen created in empty space?

Infinite Particle Physics also answers certain niggling little mysteries, such as:

    1. Why is a neutron heavier than a proton by 1.29 MeV?
    2. Why does an alpha particle have an anomalously high mass-deficit of –28.30 MeV?
    3. Where does the electron come from when a neutron decays into proton/electron/antineutrino?
    4. How does an electron disappear, when it is captured by a nuclear proton?

Does answering these questions seem impossible?  It would be, if I kept the current notions that space was emptiness and particles were infinitesimal points.  But IPP is based upon the notion that space is a dynamic polycrystalline solid, and that particles are ever-expanding point-centered ellipsoidal packing-density oscillations whose centers create and bind clusters of lattice defects.  As the center of a particle’s ellipsoidal oscillation steps through space, its bound defects are constrained to follow along, because they translocate in the direction of the moving oscillator’s center during each central “rarefaction” phase of the oscillation cycle.

IPP visualizes space as jammed-packed with 0.2 fm size spheres of ±1/2e charge, which IPP calls “Elemental Charge Entities”, or more commonly, “ECEs”.  For space to produce the phenomena of physics, it is crucial for it to be “overfilled” with ECEs, sufficient to distort the simple cubic crystals of space into a rhomboid tendency that lacks the possibility of equilibrium. Thus, “excess” ECEs are the “motive power” of the universe.  They force space to be polycrystalline, and generate the packing-density oscillations and lattice defects of IPP’s particles.

These rather exotic concepts evolved gradually over thirty-five years of my considering the implications of just one truly novel thought, the idea that collapsed-void defects in the lattice of ethereal space are the building blocks of hadron particles.  This is the kingpin idea that previous ether theorists had lacked, and it makes all the difference!  It moves ether theories from the discard heap, into the front-runner in the quest for the Theory of Everything.

The seminal importance of collapsed-void defects (c-voids) to an ether theory lies in their ability to self-organize into clusters of stable c-void pairs.   This joining together of a group of c-voids into individual pairs occurs during the compaction phase of the particle’s packing-density oscillation.  Whenever any two c-voids find themselves five, or more, lattice units apart in cardinal lattice directions, with their individual zones of expansion and contraction “crossed”, they bind themselves together through mutual cancellations of nearly all of each other’s infinitely-extending zones of expansion and contraction distortion.  IPP calls these stable pairs of mutually-canceling c-voids, defect-pairs.