A brief introduction to particle physics and quantum field theory (QFT) is presented in the main thread of chapter 5. The impasse of unification in particle physics is historically reviewed, showing that the dynamical paradigm pervades the development of particle physics and QFT. Thus, as with the conundrums of general relativity and quantum mechanics, dynamical explanation in the mechanical universe is responsible for the impasse regarding unification in particle physics as per QFT. It is shown that RBW’s adynamical approach provides an entirely new view of unification and particle physics. Philosophy of Physics for Chapter 5 uses RBW to resolve the interpretational issues of gauge invariance, gauge fixing, the Aharonov–Bohm effect, regularization, and renormalization, and largely discharges the problems of Poincaré invariance in a graphical approach, inequivalent representations, and Haag’s theorem. Foundational Physics for Chapter 5 shows how classical field theory is related to QFT and introduces gauge fields per QFT.
Two-flux tunable Aharonov-Bohm effect in a photonic lattice
