Q&A Interview, Part 3: Predictive Cosmology and Standard Model revisited

William Atkins
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 03:06

Science - Energy

A European physicist states that a new single-particle model reveals how the universe was initially created, as well as its subsequent expansion into its present form. This is the final installment in a three-part interview with the author of the cosmological theory he calls the extended Standard Model, or xSM.

The author, amateur theoretical physicist Stig Sundman, states that an elementary-particle model, which he has dubbed the 'extended Standard Model' (xSM for short), can explain why and how our present universe came to be and how it evolved over its billions of years of existence.

The August 10, 2009 iTWire.com article 'Predictive Cosmology: Creation's secret revealed in muon-electron mass ratio = 206.768 283' (or, http://www.itwire.com/content/view/26822/1066/) went into detail about the three forces of nature that govern the microscopic world of elementary particles: electromagnetic, strong, and weak.

Stig claims that his theory explains both the cause and the purpose of these forces and presents as evidence a precisely computed theoretical value of the muon-electron mass ratio'”a ratio that has been generally regarded as theoretically incalculable.

Based on his papers and the iTWire article, Stig answers a series of questions about his theory as posed to him by iTWire science writer William Atkins. Some highlights of this last-of-three-part interview are:

'¢    Examination of several precise, quantitative predictions derived from the xSM theory;
'¢    Implications of experiments by which the theory's predicted 'flyweight' Higgs boson might be detected and its mass precisely determined;
'¢    Instructions where to look for the latest discussions about weak interactions as described by xSM;
'¢    Discussions concerning neutrino oscillations;
'¢    Comparison of the conventional 'hot' Higgs mechanism versus the 'cold' neutrino-Higgs mechanism of xSM;
'¢    Explanation as to what a null result from CERN would mean for various particle models constructed without the need for a Higgs-type boson, as well as what a null result means to xSM;
'¢    Evaluation of importance to xSM of the 'principle of maximum simplicity'; and finally
'¢    Discussion of the origin, and meaning, of mass within the framework of xSM.

To read the previous two question-and-answer interviews, please go to the iTWire articles:

'¢    'Predictive Cosmology and Standard Model revisited' (or, http://www.itwire.com/content/view/30199/1066/) '” December 21, 2009.

'¢    'Q&A Interview, Part 2: Predictive Cosmology and Standard Model revisited' (or, http://www.itwire.com/content/view/30398/1066/) '” January 9, 2010.

Please note: For people interested in discussing Stig's ideas in more detail, please email William Atkins at william.atkins 'at' itwire.com and he will relay the information to Mr. Sundman.

Page two begins Part 3 of a three-part interview about the xSM theory.