I don't think there is much hope in that direction. The gauge theories are complete phenomenology - the U(1)xSU(2) electroweak sector is pretty successful and allows detailed calculations, but the SU(3) color dynamics sector is numerically hopeless, even when attacked by the strongest computer. New models of matter are needed - the existing one is spent.
In truth, there is not much to know about color dynamics, because it is impossible to calculate anything of significance. Even something as simple as the magnetic moment of the neutron coming from the motion of its quarks cannot be calculated with any accuracy directly from a QCD perturbation series (whereas the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron can be calculated from QED to 8 decimal places). The implication of this is startling. No atomic nucleus, however simple - not even a deuterium nucleus - can be accurately treated with the base theory that is supposed to underlie all matter. The one success of the theory is based on the assumed reality of its necessarily inaccessible constituents - if one assumes the quarks exist, then it is possible to show why they must be confined and impossible to isolate. This is strange - I assume something exists, but then show I can never isolate it. There is no doubt that the quark picture provides a beautiful taxonomy of the stable, metastable, and unstable mesons and hadrons and resonances. But it is hopelessly non-dynamic. You cannot calculate anything. Almost all the effort not spent on bullshit like string theory is bent toward lattice calculation methods or theoretical studies of quantum field theory itself. Little has been gained in 40 years of ceaseless effort. The gauge principle is certainly right, but probably is being used in the wrong context. The most important mathematical property of a pure gauge field is that is must be massless, that is, it must have infinite range as does light. But the real world says that the interactions are very short range, so something has to be done to break down the infinite range property that must be present in all gauge fields. So - one is positing a fundamental idea on square 0, gauge invariance, that is immediately renounced on square 1, because that invariance is going to have to be broken to recover a short-range interaction. This tells me immediately that is is a purely phenomenological idea. The only hope is to resolve the problem of gravitation and its relation to quantum fields. Einstein knew this. That is where the answer is hiding. -drl ----------------------------------------------- "I write a little. I erase a lot." - Chopin ________________________________ From: Axil Axil <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 3:06 AM Subject: [Vo]:A new barrier to overcome In following the dots that LENR experimentation has throne like bread crumbs down a long and dark winding road, my journey of the dots has now led me to and then deep inside the nucleus. I now believe I must learn something about how nuclear matter is put together and stays together. The name of the theory involved is Quantum chromodynamics (QCD). In this theory, nuclear matter is similar to a chemical compound like water with a state diagram. At low energy content, nuclear matter is confined like solid ice. Add some energy to the nucleus and nuclear matter begins to melt a bit with some parts remaining confined and some other parts free floating. This is called Quarkyonic Matter. When a lot of energy is added, all the parts of nuclear matter: the quarks and the gluons become unconfined and move freely around waiting to condense back into a solid again as energy is removed from the quark gluon plasma. Quantum chromodynamics is the theory that describes the interactions governed by the strong nuclear force. Where electromagnetism is mediated by the photon and the weak force by the W and Z bosons, the strong force is mediated by gluons. Gluons are force-carrying particles that hold quarks together and enable them to form the plethora of hadrons, such as protons and neutrons that are known to exist. It now seems to me, to understand what LENR does to the nucleus; we need to understand how the gluons work. The coulomb barrier may not be the real energy limit to be overcome in LENR. In order to support cluster fusion which is strictly supported by many experimental LENR results, this LENR energy barrier might well be advanced to either reaching the Quarkyonic Matter threshold or the quark gluon plasma saturation point. They are both in the order of some 170 MeV. Such a large threshold makes the coulomb look just like a crack in the LENR pavement; and a small crack at that.
