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Author(s):  
Rafael Alemañ

<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong> Resumen</strong>. </span>El anuncio en julio de 2012 de los primeros indicios experimentales sobre la existencia del bosón de Higgs, reavivó el interés de la secular debate sobre el significado de conceptos como el vacío, los campos físicos o incluso la propia noción de espacio. La evolución de sus interpretaciones revela mutaciones profundas en nuestra visión de la naturaleza. En este artículo se pretende exponer la complejidad del concepto de vacío, clásico y cuántico, así como su relación con otras propiedades del espacio-tiempo, como la gravitación. Consecuencia de todo ello es que el moderno concepto de vacío físico encierra una enorme riqueza conceptual todavía por explorar.</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s2"><strong>Palabras clave</strong>: </span>Espacio, Eter, Vacío, Campo, Simetría.</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong> Abstract</strong>. </span>The announcement in July 2012 of the first experimental evidence about the Higgs boson existence, intensified interest in the secular debate on the meaning of concepts such as vacuum, physical fields or even the very notion of space itself. The evolution of their interpretations reveals profound changes in the philosophical background of our view of nature. This paper will set out the complexity of the concept of classical and quantum vacuum, and their relationship with other properties of space-time, as gravitation. Consequence of this is that the modern concept of physical vacuum contains an enormous conceptual richness still to be explored.</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s2"><strong>KeyWords</strong>: </span>Space, Ether, Vacuum, Field, Symmetry.</p>

Author(s):  
Rafael A. Alemañ Berenguer

RESUMENEl anuncio en julio de 2012 de los primeros indicios experimentales sobre la existencia del bosón de Higgs, reavivó el interés del secular debate sobre el significado de conceptos como el vacío y los campos físicos. La evolución de sus interpretaciones revela mutaciones profundas en el trasfondo filosófico de nuestra visión de la naturaleza. Especialmente por cuanto el controvertido papel de las rupturas de simetría se ha añadido a las discusiones sobre las teorías de unificación y la estructura fundamental de la materia.PALABRAS CLAVEESPACIO, ÉTER, VACÍO, CAMPO, SIMETRÍAABSTRACTThe announcement in July 2012 of the first experimental evidence about the Higgs boson existence, intensified interest in the secular debate on the meaning of concepts such as vacuum and physical fields. The evolution of their interpretations reveals profound changes in the philosophical background of our view of nature. Especially since the controversial role of symmetry breaking has been added to the discussions on unification theories and the fundamental structure of matter.KEYWORDSSPACE, ETHER, VACUUM, FIELD, SYMMETRY


Author(s):  
Andrzej Przylebski

RESUMENEl anuncio en julio de 2012 de los primeros indicios experimentales sobre la existencia del bosón de Higgs, reavivó el interés del secular debate sobre el significado de conceptos como el vacío y los campos físicos. La evolución de sus interpretaciones revela mutaciones profundas en el trasfondo filosófico de nuestra visión de la naturaleza. Especialmente por cuanto el controvertido papel de las rupturas de simetría se ha añadido a las discusiones sobre las teorías de unificación y la estructura fundamental de la materia.PALABRAS CLAVEESPACIO, ÉTER, VACÍO, CAMPO, SIMETRÍAABSTRACTThe announcement in July 2012 of the first experimental evidence of the existence of Higgs boson intensified the interest in the age-old debate on the meaning of concepts such as vacuum and physical fields. The evolution of their interpretations reveals profound changes in the philosophical background of our view of nature. Especially since the controversial role of symmetry breaking has been added to the discussions on unification theories and the fundamental structure of matter.KEY WORDSSPACE, ETHER, VACUUM, FIELD, SYMMETRY


2019 ◽  
Vol 220 ◽  
pp. 02001
Author(s):  
Valeriy Abramov

Theoretically the relationships of the main parameters of active nanoobjects with the Higgs boson and the Higgs field in a fractal quantum systems, super-nonradiative states of physical fields are investigated. The estimations of numbers, mass and rest energy of the neutrino (solar, electronic), the rest energy of Majorana neutrino, dark matter are obtained.


Author(s):  
Andrei-Lucian Drăgoi

This paper proposes a potentially viable “out-of-the-box” alternative (called “SUSYA”) to the currently known supersymmetry (SUSY) theory variants: SUSYA essentially proposes a new type of seesaw mechanism (SMEC) applicable to all elementary particles (EPs) and named “Z-SMEC”; Z-SMEC is a new type of charge-based mass symmetry/”conjugation” between EPs which predicts the zero/non-zero rest masses of all known/unknown EPs, EPs that are “conjugated” in boson-fermion pairs sharing the same electromagnetic charge (EMC). Z-SMEC is actually derived from an extended zero-energy hypothesis (eZEH) which is essentially a conservation principle applied on zero-energy (assigned to the ground state of vacuum) that mainly states a general quadratic equation governing a form of ex-nihilo creation and having a pair of conjugate boson-fermion mass solutions for each set of given coefficients. eZEH proposes a general formula for all the rest masses of all EPs from Standard model, also indicating the true existence of the graviton and a possible bijective connection between the three types of neutrinos (all predicted to be actually Majorana fermions) and the massless bosons (photon, gluon and the hypothetical graviton), between the electron/positron and the W boson, predicting at least three generations of leptoquarks (LQs) (defined here as the “mass-conjugates” of the three known generations of quarks) and predicting two distinct types of neutral massless fermions (NMFs) (modelled as mass-conjugates of the Higgs boson and Z boson respectively) which may be plausible constituents for a hypothetical lightest possible (hot fermionic) dark matter (LPDM) or, even more plausible, the main constituents of a superfluid fermionic vacuum/aether, as also proposed by the notorious Superfluid vacuum theory (SVT) (in which the physical vacuum is modeled as a bosonic/fermionic superfluid). SUSYA also predicts two hypothetical bosons defined as the ultra-heavy bosonic mass-conjugates of the muon and tauon called here the “W-muonic boson” (Wmb) and the “W-tauonic boson” (Wtb) respectively: Wmb and Wtb are predicted much heavier than the W boson and the Higgs boson so that Wmb and Wtb can be regarded as ultra-heavy charged Higgs bosons with their huge predicted rest energies defining the energy scale at which the electroweak field (EWF) may be unified with the Higgs field (HF).


2021 ◽  
Vol 2090 (1) ◽  
pp. 012044
Author(s):  
Constantin Meis

Abstract Without stating any assumptions or making postulates we show that the electromagnetic quantum vacuum plays a primary role in quantum electrodynamics, particle physics, gravitation and cosmology. Photons are local oscillations of the electromagnetic quantum vacuum field guided by a non-local vector potential wave function. The electron-positron elementary charge emerges naturally from the vacuum field and is related to the photon vector potential. We establish the masse-charge equivalence relation showing that the masses of all particles (leptons, mesons, baryons) and antiparticles have electromagnetic origin. In addition, we deduce that the gravitational constant G is an intrinsic property of the electromagnetic quantum vacuum putting in evidence the electromagnetic nature of gravity. We show that Newton’s gravitational law is equivalent to Coulomb’s electrostatic law. Furthermore, we draw that G is the same for matter and antimatter but gravitational forces could be repulsive between particles and antiparticles because their masses bear naturally opposite signs. The electromagnetic quantum vacuum field may be the natural link between particle physics, quantum electrodynamics, gravitation and cosmology constituting a basic step towards a unified field theory.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 105 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Lugones

Artículo aparecido en Hypatia, vol 25, No. 4 (Otoño, 2010).Traducido por Gabriela Castellanos.Resumen: Este trabajo se pregunta cómo pensar sobreinteracciones íntimas, cotidianas de resistencia a la diferenciacolonial, defi niendo intimidad no exclusivamente niprincipalmente en términos de relaciones sexuales, sino dela vida social entretejida entre personas que no están actuandocomo representantes o funcionarias. Se parte de laidea de que la lógica categorial dicotómica y jerárquica escentral para el pensamiento capitalista y colonial modernosobre raza, género y sexualidad, y de que los colonizadosfueron defi nidos desde el primer momento de la colonizacióncomo no-humanos, cuya animalidad les impedía servistos como hombres y mujeres, aun considerando a lasmujeres blancas como no-hombres. Se muestra el vínculoentre la introducción colonial del concepto instrumentalmoderno de la naturaleza que es central para el capitalismo,y la introducción colonial del concepto modernode género. Se propone un feminismo descolonial, con unfuerte énfasis en una intersubjetividad historizada, encarnada,entablando una crítica de la opresión de géneroracializada, colonial y capitalista, heterosexualista, comouna transformación vivida de lo social. En oposición a lajerarquización dicotómica que caracteriza la colonialidadcapitalista y moderna, se plantea el movimiento hacia lacoalición que nos impulsa a conocernos el uno al otrocomo sí mismos que son densos, en relación, en socialidadesalternativas y basadas en formas tensas, creativas,de habitar la diferencia colonial. Para ello es necesario elanálisis de la opresión de género racializada y capitalista,es decir, de “la colonialidad del género”, a fi n de vencerlamediante el “feminismo descolonial”.Palabras clave: Género, feminismo, colonialidad,descolonial, modernidadToward a Decolonial FeminismAbstract: This paper asks how to think about intimateeveryday interactions of resistance to colonial difference,defi ning intimacy not exclusively or even primarily in termsof sexual relations, but of social life interwoven amongpeople who are not acting as representatives or functionaries.It starts out from the idea that the dichotomousand hierarchical categorial logic is central for moderncapitalist and colonial thought about race, gender andsexuality, and that the colonized were defi ned from the verybeginning as non-humans, whose bestiality did not allowfor their being seen as men or women, even when whitewomen were considered as non-men. The link between thecolonial introduction of the modern instrumental conceptof nature is shown to be central for capitalism and for thecolonial introduction of the modern concept of gender. Adecolonial feminism is proposed, with a strong emphasison an incarnate, historicized intersubjectivity, posing criticismof the racialized, colonial, capitalist, heterosexualistgender oppression, as a lived transformation of the social.In opposition to the dichotomous hierarchization characteristicof capitalist, modern coloniality, it is proposed tostrengthen the movement toward coalition which impels usto get to know each other as dense, in-relation selves, inalternative socialities based on tense, creative habitationsof the colonial difference. For this we need the analysisof racialize3d and capitalist gender oppression, that is, ofthe coloniality of gender, in order to overcome it by meansof “decolonial feminism”.Key Words: Gender, feminism, coloniality, resistencia,modernity


2008 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 035005 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Dragoman
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2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (37) ◽  
pp. 2827-2831
Author(s):  
A. BHATTACHARYA ◽  
S. N. BANERJEE ◽  
B. CHAKRABARTI ◽  
S. BANERJEE ◽  
S. MANI

The contribution of the cosmological constant to the ground state energy of the quantum vacuum field has been investigated in the framework of the Casimir energy calculation. A regularization scheme is suggested. The equation of state and the nature of the corresponding medium has been studied with some interesting observations.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raghvendra Singh

Abstract There are four known fundamental forces of nature and there is a need to combine them into a unified theory. Progress has been made toward this goal but gravity remains an issue. However, the four forces are body forces that act on points. They together do not make the universe a closed system. Here, I identify a surface force, which acts outward normal to the surface of the universe. Further, using water drop hanging in a vacuum as a model, I provide a formula to find the magnitude of this force. The fifth force may be generated by surface tension, a property of the quantum vacuum field.


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