Tony Smith's Home Page

Basic Ideas of D4-D5-E6-E7-E8 VoDou Physics

 
D4, D5, E6, E7 and E8 are Lie algebras,
but you don't have to know what they are to get the basic ideas 
of the D4-D5-E6-E7-E8 VoDou Physics Model 
with Many-Worlds Quantum Theory.  
 
For this page, 
I will omit a lot of details, and I will not be at all rigorous.  
 

What should a Physics Model do?

It should describe the Particles that make up everything we see. 
The Particles are like Actors in a Play.  
 
It should describe the Spacetime in which the particles are located. 
The Spacetime is like the Stage of a Play. 
 
It should describe the Forces between the particles that make them 
move around in spacetime and interact with each other.  
The Forces act like the Script of a Play. 
 
 
Each Performance of a Play is unique, 
and different from every other Performance. 
You can say that a Play is really not just any one Performance, 
but the Sum Total of All Performances.  
 
Similarly, there are many different Possibilities for the Particles 
to be configured in Spacetime, 
and 
we can say that Many-Worlds Quantum Theory of Physics is 
the Sum Total of All Possibilities.  
 
 
Also, a Performance is influenced by interaction with 
its Audience, which in turn is influenced by each Performance, 
so that the Audience is like a mirror through which
the Performance reacts with itself and with other Performances.  
 
 
 

D4 describes the Forces - the Script of a Play.

D4 is made up of 28 parts. 
 
Those 28 parts describe the 4 Forces of physics: 
 
 1 part of D4 carries Electromagnetism; 
 
 3 parts of D4 carry the Weak Force; 
 
 8 parts of D4 carry the Color Force; 
 
16 parts of D4 carry Gravity and related things. 
 
 
With these 4 forces, we have described: 
 
Electromagnetic phenomena such as 
light, radio, radar, gamma rays, and magnetism, 
and 
holding atoms together by keeping electrons close 
to the nuclei of atoms;  
 
Weak Force phenomena such as 
radioactivity that makes luminous watch dials glow; 
 
Color Force phenomena such as 
nuclear reactions that keep the Sun burning 
and 
holding atomic nuclei together 
by keeping quarks close to each other inside the nuclei;  
 
Gravitational phenomena such as 
holding the Earth together, 
holding the Sun together while it burns its nuclear fuel, 
and
holding the Solar System and the Galaxies together. 
 
 
Since the Forces describe how things move and interact, 
they are like the Script of a Play.  
 
 
D4 only describes the Forces. 
D4 does not contain 
either 
the Spacetime in which the Forces act,
nor 
does it contain 
the Particles between which the Forces act.
 
 
D4 is a Script without Stage or Actors. 
 
 
 

D5 describes the Spacetime - the Stage of a Play.

To get the Spacetime Stage, you expand from D4 to D5.
D5 contains the 28 parts of D4.  
but
D5 has 45 parts,
and
the extra parts of D5 describe Spacetime as well as the Forces.
 
 
Now we have a Script and Stage,
but still no Actors.
 
 

E6 describes the Particles - the Actors of a Play.

To get the Actors, you expand from D5 to E6.
 
E6 has an E6/D5xU(1) aspect that contains the 45 parts of D5 
and therefore also contains, 
like nested Russian dolls, the 28 parts of D4,
but 
E6 has 78 parts - one part for each Tarot card,
and
some of the extra parts of E6 describe 
the Particles upon which the Forces act within Spacetime. 
 
 
The Particle Actors described by E6 are called Spinors. 
If you want to know why they are called Spinors,
click here.  If you don't really care about that, just read on. 
 
 
Now we have Script, Stage, and Actors,
so 
now we can perform the Play.
 

In addition to its E6/D5xU(1) aspect that describes the Particles, E6 has another aspect, E6/F4, that describes Possibilities:

E6, E7 and E8 describe Many Possibilities - the Performances of a Play.

 
Each performance of a play may be a little different from the others, 
and 
the total experience of the play is not just one performance,
but 
the totality of all the performances.
 
That is where
the Many-Worlds picture of quantum physics comes into play:
 
Each "world" is a unique "performance" 
of forces acting on particles in spacetime 
in accord with the D4-D5-E6-E7-E8 VoDou Physics Model,
and
"reality" is the "sum" of all the "performances".
 

 

An integral part of each Performance is its Audience.

 
Marcel Duchamp said "I believe that the artist doesn't know 
what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator 
than to the artist."
 
What is the Role of the Audience? 
 
Each Performance is influenced by interaction with its Audience, 
which in turn is influenced by each Performance, so that 

the Audience is like a Mirror

through which mirror a Performance reflexively reacts with itself 
and with other Performances in the set of All Possible Performances,    
forming a Jack Sarfatti Back-Reaction Loop, 
which is usually expressed in terms of David Bohm's Quantum Theory.  
 
 
 

Spinor Particles :

 
The property of Spin of a thing 
describes
how that thing is transformed 
if you rotate it in space by 360 degrees. 

For instance, take an arrow from a bow and arrow set, and consider that the arrow points in the direction from its tail to its arrowhead.

If you rotate the arrow tail to head, by 180 degrees, the direction of the arrow is reversed, so a 180 degree rotation reverses the arrow.

If you continue the rotation by another 180 degrees, you have rotated the arrow by 360 degrees, and the arrow is back where it started.

Since the arrow is back to where it started after 1 full 360 degree rotation, the arrow is said to have Spin = 1.

Unlike the arrow, the Particle Actors described by E6 
are NOT back where they started after 1 full 360 degree rotation.  
 
It takes two full rotations, 720 degrees, 
to get an E6 Particle Actor back where it started. 
 
Since an E6 Particle Actor is only 1/2 back to where it started  
after 1 full 360 degree rotation, 
an E6 Particle Actor is said to have Spin = 1/2, 
and 
is called Spinor since its Spin is not the simplest value 1.  
 
 
Lest you think that the requirement of 720 degree rotation 
to get something back to where it started 
is something 
that does not happen in our "normal" world, 
and 
is something that only happens in a "weird-physics" world, 
 
you should know 
that there ARE ways to demonstrate Spinors,
based on 
the "orientation" of the thing being rotated
with respect to its "environment".
 

Here is a demonstration of Spinor Orientation-Entanglement:

Louis H. Kauffman, in his book Knots and Physics (World Scientific Publishing Co. 1991), says that a spin 1/2 particle is like a ball attached to its surroundings by string, as in this picture from Gravitation, by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler (Freeman 1972):

The orientation of the ball is related to the surrounding sphere by the tangle of the strings connecting them. If you rotate the ball 360 degrees, the strings are tangled, but if you go to 720 degrees, the strings get untangled. Here is a demonstration of how the 720 degree (4 pi) rotation works:

It is from Feynman's 1986 Dirac Memorial Lecture (Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics, Cambridge Press 1987), and it shows a cup held by a dancer in one hand. Rotating the cup by 360 degrees gets the arm (which is connected to the shoulder of the dancer) twisted, but turning the cup another 360 degrees gets the arm back straight.

In it, picture 1 is the start, picture 2 is 180 degrees, picture 3 is 360 degrees (note how the arm is twisted), picture 4 is 540 degrees, and picture 1 again is 720 degrees.

 

The spin 1/2 particles orientation-entangled with their environment are Fermions and their intrinsic orientation-entanglement can be mathematically described by saying that Fermions are Quaternionic.

 

 
Now that you understand Spinors, 
you can click here to go back to
the description of E6 Particle Actors. 
 
 
 

 


Tony Smith's Home Page

 

......