mnp Model: Foreword to the mnp Model

The main document on the mnp Model has not yet been re-written to incorporate the developments in the Model of the last three years. The following Foreword is the start of a new mnp Manual. In keeping with modern comedy, humor may be limited but everyone will find something at which to take offense.

Foreword to the mnp Model

"No one is thinking like that" has been an accurate description of the mnp Model for years.

Why "think like that?" The author suggests a simple Model that

makes the Planck constant understandable
has a small number of building blocks and interactions
seems to cover the range of existing forces and particles
leaves few conceptual gaps for mysteries or new forces or particles or universes

might well be attractive. On the other hand, the author is aware everyone will find offense somewhere in the list of what the simple mnp Model purports to explain:

Planck constant h is the result of the coiled nature of matter
Spin is the result of the coiled nature of matter, with the quantized loops of fixed length and fixed speed c requiring 720 degrees for complete revolution
The basic charge loop structure of quarks, electrons, and positrons comes from 6 loops in a strand, allowing +1 to -1 charge in steps of 1/3
Length contraction and time dilation are essential to movement, not accidents that happen. ALL motion is "relativistic" though a universal frame of reference is required
Left-handed preference is not universal but a function of the Earth's rotation
Gravity is an interaction over a very small scale between entities moving at c
Galactic dynamics results from the recruitment and attraction of gravitons which act over very short distances
Gravity beyond some limit a₀ is weak and chaotic unless a distant mass has been "captured" in which case the gravitational attraction is higher than Newtonian physics suggests
Gravitational (and electric and magnetic) fields are recruited and have mass since they are made up of the same 3 basic entities that make up matter
The acceleration of gravity is very complicated and dependent on the coiled nature of matter. Light and neutrinos behave fundamentally differently than matter in a gravitational field
Photons and neutrinos are the same except that photons are polarized and the constituents of neutrinos have random polarization, with net 0 magnetic effect
Neutrinos recruit and change mass. They are not quantized. A moving or rotating or oscillating neutrino detector might be more effective at measuring a range of neutrino masses.
Wavelengths of photons and all other moving particles are the result of the particles' momentum and not the cause of the energy of the photon. *Though how electro-magnetic radiation recruits photons is not yet explained*
Black holes are seen as made up of basic entities and constituents moving at c and do NOT have a singularity at the center
Dark matter and dark energy are not sinister unexplained forces but do not have any magical gravitational effects either. Disorganized matter may collect around galaxies and other masses, but will have normal gravitational effects.
Quantum chromodynamics becomes a much simpler geometric explanation of 6 stranded coiled quarks tearing at each other, based on the constituent's speed c and their structure. Calculations may be just as complicated as QCD's
The space in which the constituents of the Model move is flat as is the basic "time" in which the constituents move at c
Time and distance result from measurement by particles including photons and neutrinos
Down and Strange are seen as in the same family, with perhaps a third shorter lived -1/3 charge particle in the family.
The Higgs is a real particle, but is seen has being a meson of quarks in the same family as bottom and should usually present in its most durable form as having spin 1. It is seen as having nothing to do with gravity.
If a -1/3 charge particle can be found corresponding to top, it will be even more massive/energetic and will come in two or three variants.
Electro-magnetic fields caused by photons are somewhat persistent and are reinforced by coherent photons. *single photon interference is not adequately explained, but the requirement that photons be coherent is seen as crucial to the explanation*
Worm holes will not exist
Time travel is impossible

Lest any readers remain unoffended, the author suggests that

Acceleration does not produce time dilation
The satellites making up the GPS system see Earth clocks as fast
The twin-paradox explanations are on shaky ground
The time dilation effects of gravity are a function not of acceleration which depends on the presence and differential direction of gravitons but on just the presence of gravitons due to strength of the gravitational field which depends on the presence and proximity of mass. Time dilation at Lagrange Points is not zero.

Hence the author suggests the theory of special relativity is on shaky ground, and the theory of general relativity is also ripe for reinterpretation.

History of the mnp Model

The mnp Model grows out of a thought experiment, started 45 years ago, based on two questions.

"What is the simplest explanation for gravitational forces?" and
"What is the simplest model for matter and energy?"

Starting with basics:

the speed of light is constant
some small angular momentum seems to be fundamental
our universe exists
certainty contains and even requires uncertainty

Adding a few concepts:

the simpler the explanations the better
the simpler the interactions the better. Even better if interaction is only with near neighbors

The result of that thought experiment is the mnp Model. The mnp Model needs no long distance magic, no extra dimensions, and no implausible singularities except the first.

The mnp Model has developed over time, starting with a meditation in early August 2011 positing that every "point" in the universe is moving at c. The first writings were a compendium of emails from September 22, 2011.

Drafts of this "treatise" stopped in December 2012, though piecewise developments have been presented in the blog mnpmodel.blogspot.com into 2015.

Understandings of the three basic entities in the mnp Model, their two interactions and one "non-interaction" have developed in that time. Understanding the Planck constant has improved. Gaps in the mnp Model's understanding of movement and the formation of photons from electro-magnetic radiation have also been recognized.

Language and Vocabulary

This document (starts) an attempt to bring the central draft document on the mnp Model into the second seventh of the 21st century.

The draft has not yet been translated into the language of physics. Some of the concepts are foreign or rare to physics. The author speaks more the language of architecture and architectural engineering and comes from a background of intellectual and computer tool development. So readers who attempt that translation in their own minds have the author's admiration and gratitude.

Author's Motivations

The author has always been irritated with models in which space needed to know what was going on across the universe and had very large numbers of magic quantities. He also has not forgotten the teaching assistant who proposed sending information faster than light at the intersection of two rotating beams of light.

The author has always been awed by the care and genius required by experimentation.

In spite of decades of relative stable life and the awe in which he holds theorists and experimenters, the author finds the unsettled state of physics knowledge and the suggestions of the mnp Model leading to the conclusion that life will be interesting and unsettled for all branches of physics for many years.

The author believes that an integration of various branches of physical experimentation and knowledge is possible. To the author's dismay, it appears that gradual, evolutionary development of theory and mental models will not be sufficient to achieve an integrated theory of much of anything, let alone everything.

Author's Intentions

The mnp Model is proposed in the spirit of understanding and development. Whatever Theory of Everything emerges to unify the various incompatible branches of physics, that unification might be able learn from the attitudes and approaches of the mnp Model and may even require a re-examination of theory and proof similar to that presented here...