Metaparticle Structure in its Two Forms

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THE METAPARTICLE STRUCTURE IN ITS TWO FORMS

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Basic Metaparticle
Dynamic disk formed by rotation

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The Metaparticle is not a newly discovered variety of subatomic particle, but a newly theorized, structural prototype applying to elementary particles. Such fundamental entities as electrons, muons, and neutrinos were for most of the 20th century thought to have no internal structure at all.

In the Standard Model now in process of revision, the basic point of energy in the electron had to be considered the sole location and possessor of that particle's major attributes. There was no place else to put them, so to speak. Consequently this single "point particle" had to accommodate the electron's mass, charge, spin magnitude, spin orientation, momentum, and practically its entire behavior. Increasingly, "wave functions" were called upon to share in such an overload.

The hidden reason for such situation, according to metaparticle principles, was the undiscovered fact that elementary particles are actually binary, bipolar systems in which the pole of greater energy is "invisible" in our physical range of matter.

This structural factor and its effects are provably shown to solve a number of mysteries and enigmas considered unsolvable by particle experimenters. But that was during the decades when the scientific focus was on the stream of new particles being knocked out of protons in ever more powerful colliders. Little attention was given to the subject of structure in elementary entities. When scientists were queried by science writers, they usually replied with something like "Yes, that is an area we must get around to investigating."

Which they eventually did. Of course, very little is being exposed while major changes in the Standard Model are being contemplated. There have been oblique acknowledgements that spin now involves dimensional rotation, for example. That in turn demands two points, two poles, two nodes of some kind to provide a radius or a diameter for such rotation.

All of which -- including the recent scientific confirmation of precession in rotating muons -- we of course look upon as quite bolstering to the Metaparticle Theory.

Augmented Metaparticle
Dynamic sphere formed by disk rotating on secondary axis

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As mentioned in the Six Steps section, the augmented spherical form of the metaparticle was discovered by practical necessity rather than as an integral development from the substantive metaphysical findings which we began trying to introduce in the mid seventies.

One electron mystery I was hoping to solve with the basic metaparticle model was not yielding to it. That puzzling instance of particle behavior had to do with "orientation". When an electron, for example, is held static in a magnetic field, experimenters can determine its orientation: up, down, sideways (Fig. 3). (They can even cause it to turn a flip; we'll see what further enigma results from that in the section on the "720-degree rollover" phenomenon.)

Now here is the puzzling problem that led to the augmented, spherical metaparticle. If you're a non-scientist, bear in mind that experimental physicists can't actually see a captive electron to determine its orientation. Their measuring and testing devices tell them. So when the device says the electron is in an "up" or "down" orientation, fine. But when the same device indicates the particle being tested is "oriented in no direction", or "in every direction", one can well imagine that the gravitas of even a veteran experimentalist might for the moment be disturbed.

I didn't have enough gravitas to disturb, but this puzzle did disturb my tranquility. We had our basic model, however, and it was a dynamic disk. It finally occurred to me that when a disk rotates on an axis running edge-to-edge, it forms a sphere. We also knew science recognizes that particles are "tiny gyroscopes". And as a satellite designer Charles Bueker was the ideal man to ask about the phenomenon of gyroscopic precession, where its wheel spontaneously begins a slower second rotation on another axis. (He said engineers in his specialty considered precession to be mostly a nuisance.)

Putting all this together strongly implied that a spinning electron going into precession would form a sphere in which no kind of orientation could be established, and which could therefore be honestly described as having either no orientation or oriented "every which way" at once.

Charlie did computer simulations of a 3-D metaparticle and came up with very reassuring motion patterns that seemed to confirm further the two-to-one ratio of frequencies between primary and secondary rotations. Those graphics are presented in the page following Wave/Particle Duality.

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