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Single Idea 21161

[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields ]

Full Idea

The standard model says that the fields of all fundamental forces should merge at extremely high energies, meaning there is also a unified, high-energy field out there.

Gist of Idea

In the standard model all the fundamental force fields merge at extremely high energies

Source

New Scientist writers (Why the Universe Exists [2017], 03)

Book Ref

New Scientist writers: 'Why the Universe Exists' [John Murray 2017], p.66

A Reaction

Not quite sure what 'out there' means. This idea is linked to the quest for dark energy. Is this unified phenomenon only found near the Big Bang?

The 14 ideas with the same theme [foundational background containing particles]:

15314 Faraday's single field of variable forces introduces a criterion of Unity into what is ultimate [Faraday, by Harré/Madden]
17548 Maxwell introduced real fields, which transferred forces from point to point [Heisenberg]
18202 The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld]
20639 Quantum fields contain continual rapid creation and disappearance [Close]
11931 Energy fields are discontinuous at the very small [Molnar]
18223 In theories of fields, space-time points or regions are causal agents [Field,H]
21201 A 'field' is just a region to which points can be assigned in space and time [Martin,BR]
21212 The Higgs field, unlike others, has a nozero value in a state without particles [Martin,BR]
21731 Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott]
21730 A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott]
21161 In the standard model all the fundamental force fields merge at extremely high energies [New Sci.]
20462 Because it is quantised, a field behaves like a set of packets of energy [Rovelli]
20463 There are about fifteen particles fields, plus a few force fields [Rovelli]
20464 The world consists of quantum fields, with elementary events happening in spacetime [Rovelli]