Quantum Chromodynamics in the Conscious Point Physics Model

Introduction to the Conscious Point Physics Model

The Conscious Point Physics model is a revolutionary theoretical framework to replace conventional quantum chromodynamics using the rule-based interactions of four “Conscious Points” (CPs). The Standard Model identifies 29 elementary particles (24 fermions, 4 force carriers, and 1 Higgs boson). I propose that all the Standard Model  particles can be constructed from just four fundamental types of Conscious Points:

1. Positive electromagnetic Conscious Points (positive emCPs)
2. Negative electromagnetic Conscious Points (negative emCPs)
3. Positive quark Conscious Points (positive qCPs)
4. Negative quark Conscious Points (negative qCPs)

These Conscious Points are the fundamental units constituting the substrate and mediating the processes of the physical universe. God’s consciousness enlivens/underlies these four Conscious Points, which have awareness, computational capacity, and specific properties. The electromagnetic CPs participate only in electromagnetic interactions, while the quark CPs participate in both electromagnetic and strong nuclear force interactions. The strong force associated with quark CPs is approximately 100 times stronger than the electromagnetic force on the scale of the proton’s diameter.

The diameter of a proton is about one femtometer (1 fm = 10⁻¹⁵ meters).

• – The strong force binds quarks inside protons and neutrons and holds protons and neutrons together in the atomic nuclei.
• – The electromagnetic force between nucleons tries to push positively charged protons apart due to their like charges.
• At ~1 fm (diameter of a proton):
  – Strong force: Dominant, attractive, and short-ranged.
  – Electromagnetic force: 1% the strength of the strong force
• At – 10^-10m (diameter of the atomic orbitals):
  – This ratio reverses dramatically at larger distances. At the atomic orbital radius, the strong force is effectively zero.

Quarks and Their Composition

In the Conscious Point Physics model, quarks are not elementary particles. Rather, the quarks are complex particles composed of various ratios of quark Conscious Points and electromagnetic Conscious Points. The +/- qCPs and +/- emCPs are elementary. The composition of the quarks is as follows:

• An up quark (+2/3 charge, 1/2 hbar spin) consists of:
  • a positive quark Conscious Point (+2/3 charge)
  • surrounded by polarized quark dipoles (QDPs) from the DPSea
  • The qCPs next to the central, unpaired qCP are polarized (with -qCPs inward and +qCPs outward)
  • The polarized qDPs lie head-to-tail outward from the central unpaired +qCP, creating radial spokes of head-to-tail oriented qDPs.
  • The spherical region of polarized (head-to-tail oriented) qCPs around the central +qCP increases to the point where the diameter is so large that the space between the radial lines of qCPs has gaps filled with qCPs oriented circumferentially between the plus and minus ends of the qDPs.
  • At increasingly large diameters from the central unpaired qCP, the orientation of the qDPs assumes the random binding orientation of the qDPs to qDPs. (The gaps between the ends of the head to tail qDPs allows the + and – tails of the qDP to bind to qDPs in other radials.)
  • The inverse square diminishment of the + charge force from the central qDP becomes comparable to the qDPs
• A down quark (-1/3 charge, 1/2 hbar spin) consists of:
  • a positive quark Conscious Point  (with +2/3 charge) and (1/2 hbar spin)
  • a negative electromagnetic Conscious Point (with -1 charge) and  (1/2 hbar spin)
  • an emDP (a plus emCP and minus emCP) (with 0 charge and 1/2 hbar of orbital spin) –
  • CP configuration
    • +qCP (+2/3 charge, 1/2 hbar spin)
    • -emCP (+2/3 charge, 1/2 hbar spin)
    • a +/-emCP  (+1 and -1 charge)
      • net zero charge
      • bonded to the +qCP and -emCP,
      • whole structure rotating to create the 1/2 hbar of spin.
    • total bonding sequence: (-emCP : +qCP : -emCP : +emCP)
    • the structure rotates with an angular velocity to produce 1/2 hbar of angular momentum
    • The emCP and e
  • surrounded by quark dipoles from the Dipole Sea
  • Down quark decay sequence and decay  products examined (as an indicator of the composition of the down quark)
    • down quark (d) → up quark (u) + W⁻ boson
      • Postulate: the W boson is a complex particle formed from random interactions in the Dipole Sea.
      • The W- boson interacts with the down quark and removes the -emCP (which will become an electron) and the +/- emCP (which will become a neutrino)
      • The neutron has been transformed into a proton
    • The W⁻ boson then quickly decays into an electron (e⁻) + electron antineutrino (ν̄ₑ)
    • So the full decay chain looks like this: d → u + e⁻ + ν̄ₑ
    • This is what happens inside a neutron decay
      • the neutron is made of one up and two down quarks: udd
      • the neutron decays into a proton (uud), an electron, and an antineutrino
    • This is the classic beta-minus decay.

• An anti-up quark
  • a negative quark Conscious Point (with -2/3 charge) at its center.
• An anti-down quark consists of:
  • -qCP (-2/3 charge, 1/2 hbar spin),
  • +emCP (+1 charge, 1/2 hbar spin),
  • +/- emCP pair (whole particle rotating at 1/2 hbar spin)
  • resulting in a net +1/3 charge.
  • The Down quark must rotate at 1/2 hbar to preserve its fermionic number.

Background of Space:

• Space (the vacuum between planets and inside atoms) is a mixture of electromagnetic Dipoles (emCPs) and quark dipoles (qDPs) .
• The positive and negative quark Conscious Points bond together to form qDPs.
• The dipoles surround the central quark Conscious Point in specific configurations, giving the quark its mass and properties.

Understanding Quark Confinement

Quark confinement—the phenomenon where quarks cannot be isolated—is explained through the dynamic interactions of quark Conscious Points and quark Dipoles. When attempting to separate quarks:

1. The quark Dipole Particle align between CPs to create a “flux tube” or “gluon tube” between them w
2. This tube consists of polarized quark dipoles
3. As separation increases, the energy in the tube grows
4. Eventually, the energy becomes sufficient to create a new quark-antiquark pair
5. The tube “snaps,” and two new particles form rather than isolated quarks

This explains why free quarks are never observed. When sufficient energy is applied to separate bound quarks, the result is always the creation of new quark-containing particles rather than isolated quarks.

Mesons and Baryons Explained

Hadrons (particles that respond to the strong force) come in two main types:

Mesons (Quark-Antiquark Pairs)

• Consist of one quark and one antiquark
• Examples include the pi-zero (up and anti-up), pi-plus (up and down), and pi-minus (anti-up and anti-down)
• Have integer spin (classified as bosons)

Baryons (Three-Quark Combinations)

• Consist of three quarks
• Examples include:
  • Proton (up, up, down) with +1 charge
  • Neutron (up, down, down) with 0 charge
  • Delta baryons (four types, up, up, up and various combinations of up and down quarks with different charge)
• Have half-integer spin (classified as fermions)

Spin and Particle Stability

Spin plays a crucial role in particle stability and interactions:

• Each quark has a spin of ½ (half an h-bar of angular momentum)
• In protons, the spins are arranged as “down, up, down” (canceling to give a net ½ spin)
• In delta baryons, all three spins align (giving a 3/2 spin)
• The delta baryon’s configuration is unstable (like trying to align three magnets with the same poles together)
• This instability causes delta baryons to decay rapidly (10^-22 seconds)

The decay of a Delta+ baryon (up, up, down) into a proton illustrates important principles of conservation and particle transformation:

1. The Delta+ baryon has three quarks with aligned spins (3/2 total spin)
2. It decays into a proton (1/2 spin) plus a pi-zero (1 spin)
3. The middle quark’s spin flips, reducing the baryon’s spin by 1
4. The pi-zero meson carries away the angular momentum lost from the spin flip of the up quark

Rethinking Gluons

Conventional quantum chromodynamics describes gluons as exchange particles that mediate the strong force between quarks. Abshier proposes a different perspective:

• Gluons are not elementary particles but manifestations of polarized quark dipoles
• The strong force arises directly from quark Conscious Points attracting each other
• What appears as gluon exchange is actually the polarization of quark dipoles between quarks
• The “color charge” concept in conventional QCD represents the force vs distance behavior produced by  these polarized dipoles

In this view, gluons don’t cause quarks to stick together; rather, they’re byproducts of quarks interacting through their inherent strong force properties.

Mass Energy and Space Stress

The mass of particles comes from organized configurations of Conscious Points and dipoles:

• Most of a hadron’s mass doesn’t come from the quark Conscious Points themselves
• Instead, it comes from the energy stored in stretched and polarized dipoles surrounding and between quarks
• This explains why conventional physics describes gluons as contributing significantly to hadron mass
• When dipoles are stretched (as in the “flux tube” between quarks), they store energy that can be converted to mass

Quark-Gluon Plasma

Under extreme conditions (like those in the early universe or in particle colliders), quarks and gluons can enter a state called quark-gluon plasma:

• In this state, quarks and polarized dipoles are so densely packed that individual hadrons cannot form
• The quark Conscious Points and polarized dipoles interact collectively rather than forming distinct particles
• This state represents a transition to “deconfinement” where quarks aren’t bound within specific hadrons

Conscious Point Physics (CPP) Compared to Conventional Quantum Chromodynamics

The Conscious Points model offers an alternative explanation for key aspects of quantum chromodynamics:

• QCD uses the model of eight types of gluons carrying color charge to explain the force-distance relationship between quarks.
• The CPP model proposes that polarized quark dipoles of various configurations (e.g., formation of quark dipole tubes when stretched) explain the force-distance relationship of quark-quark binding.
• Rather than color exchange causing the strong force, the force comes directly from quark Conscious Points attracting each other
• The mathematics of SU(3) symmetry in conventional QCD accurately predicts and describes the force-distance relationship between quark Conscious Points.
• In the CPP model, the appearance of gluons is an artifact of the increasing polarization of the Quark Dipoles in the space between bound quarks in hadrons (i.e., in mesons and baryons).
• Every quark is composed of an unbound Quark Conscious Point at its center and is surrounded by a layer of polarized Quark Dipoles.
• Quarks bind to Antiquarks to form mesons with a short half-life of ~10^-17 seconds.
• Quarks bind in groups of threes to form baryons, most of which are unstable. The exceptions are the proton (uud), which appears to be indefinitely stable, and the neutron, which is stable when bound to a proton but decays with a half-life of 10 minutes when isolated.
• Quarks bind to quarks due to the summation of the strong and electromagnetic forces produced by the qCPs at the center of each quark.
• The mesons are quark-antiquark pairs, serving as the simplest illustration of quark-quark binding phenomena.
• The quark-antiquark pair in the meson forms a Quark Dipole Tube between the quarks when pulled apart by forces, such as in particle collisions in a collider.
• When the quarks reach a sufficiently large distance from each other, the polarized Quark Dipoles in the Quark Dipole Tube begin forming more poorly aligned Quark Dipoles.
• When the quarks are sufficiently far apart, the Polarized Quark Dipole Tube loses coherence, and the Polarized Dipoles reorganize around a split Quark Dipole, resulting in the formation of two new quarks.
• This stretching of the quark-antiquark bond, the bond breaking, and the reorganization of the stretched Quark Dipoles around a split Quark Dipole to form two new quarks (and hence produce an additional meson) is an example of the process called hadronization.
• This stretching and creating a new quark is typically used as an example of quark confinement.
• Quarks are not confined as a primary effect. Quark confinement is a secondary effect of qCPs surrounded by polarized qDPs in a quark Dipole Sea. When quarks are bonded to another quark, as in a meson (quark-antiquark), pulling the two quarks apart stretches the bond between the quarks (i.e., increases the distance between the quarks). Force must be used, which means that work is done and energy has been stored in the bond between the quark and antiquark. This stored energy will eventually form the mass of two new quarks. In the first phase of the stretching, more qDPs fit into the space left by pulling the quark-antiquark pair apart. This places more quarks in the space between the quark and antiquark. Since the strong force attracts quarks, and the qDPs in line between the quark and antiquark are all quarks, we have a string of quark DPs that attract each other by the EM and Strong force. As the quarks get farther apart, the angles of the qDP lines between quark-antiquark get straighter, and they exert more force directly at the other quark, and these increased bonds get stronger with stretching. The electric charge attraction keeps the plus-minus alignment of the qDPs between quarks. As they go past a maximum increase in force due to the “straightening of radials” effect, the attraction between quark and antiquark diminishes, because the qDPs in the radial chain between quark and antiquark are stretched far enough that they begin to bond with the qDPs in the surrounding space instead of along the radials. Eventually, the qDP tube becomes narrowed sufficiently that it breaks. The stretched qDPs (with all the stored energy of their stretched bonds) aggregate around the minus qDP on one side, and do the same around a plus qDP on the other side. The extra plus qDP and minus qDP (the pairs of the qDP that formed the new quark on both sides) are attracted and bond to become a new qDP.

Conclusion: A New Paradigm

Abshier’s Conscious Point Physics represents a radical reimagining of particle physics:

• It reduces 29 elementary particles to combinations of just four fundamental Conscious Points
• It explains particle behavior through consciousness and simple attraction/repulsion rules
• It provides physical interpretations for abstract mathematical concepts in conventional QCD
• It offers a different perspective on the nature of force, mass, and particle interactions

While acknowledging that this theory challenges established physics and requires further development, Abshier suggests that it provides a more intuitive understanding of quantum phenomena and unifies seemingly disparate aspects of the Standard Model.