f the weak force IVBs. Weak force “singlets” can only be referenced against their original creation energy, as scaled by another universal constant of nature, the mass of the Higgs boson. The Higgs and IVB mass serves to recreate the original environmental conditions – metric and energetic, particle and charge – in which the reactions they now mediate first took place, ensuring charge and mass invariance and hence symmetry and energy conservation regardless of the type of alternative elementary charge carrier that may be required, or when and where new elementary particles are created. (See: The Higgs Boson and the Weak Force IVBs.)
No “real” particle is transformed without some compensating transformation in the virtual particle sea. The IVBs act somewhat like a human shaman, spirit-medium, or priest, who connects real people to the spirit world, and in the process transforms both. It is the role of the IVBs to join or bridge the real and virtual worlds of reality, raising virtual particles up to reality and sending real particles down to the virtual “sea”. The virtual sea remains connected to temporal reality through a constant exchange between real and virtual particles, a constant potential which becomes actualized in the nuclear transformations and element-building of stars. On Earth it is usually seen only in radioactive decays, nuclear power stations, or in the reactions of cosmic rays and our particle accelerators, or (sadly) in nuclear weapons. Humans are learning to participate, perhaps at their great peril, in exchanges with the “virtual sea”.
Because the weak force IVBs extract virtual particles and alternative charge carriers from the universal vacuum “sea”, and these virtual particle charges, masses, and energies are gauged by global electromagnetic and metric constants, this common source constitutes another part of the mechanism which assures that elementary particles created today will be the same in all respects as those created yesterday or tomorrow, whether created as “singlets” by the weak force, or as particle-antiparticle pairs by the electromagnetic force.
In the operation of the “W” family of IVBs we see a hint of the process of creation, although not yet creation itself – because although IVBs are examples of a low-energy particle-producing interaction between the spacetime metric and energy, they can produce only alternative charge carriers (leptons, neutrinos, and mesons) and baryon transformations. “W” IVBs cannot create or destroy baryons themselves; some yet-more-energetic analog of this process, perhaps involving leptoquarks and the superheavy “X” IVB, must hold the key to the mechanism of the primordial creation of matter, baryons, and quarks in the “Big Bang”. (See: “The Origin of Matter and Information“.) (See: “Table of the Higgs Cascade“.)
I believe the primordial interaction of (very high-energy) light with the metric structure of spacetime – an interaction between energy and spacetime mediated, regulated, or structured by the weak force – creates particles, although the details of this interaction remain unknown. This interaction may include gravity during the initial moments of creation. This sketchy scenario nevertheless suggests that the structure of spacetime may well be the source for the structure of particles, and one might reflect the other in some transformed parallelism. For example, the three energy “families” of quarks and leptons may reflect the 3 dimensions of space. We have no better explanation for the existence of these 3 energy families. The interaction between particles and the geometry of spacetime is currently being investigated by “string” theory (see Brian Greene’s book “The Elegant Universe”). The IVBs may be analogs of “strings”.
In the 4×4 matrix representation of the unified field theory (see table), we have 2 pairs of forces: the long-range or spacetime forces (electromagnetism and gravitation), and the short-range or particle forces (strong and weak). It may be these force pairs are in some sense transformed analogs of each other. For example, we have in