Synergetic Lattice Field Theory
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SYNERGETIC LATTICE FIELD THEORY OVERVIEW
Synergetic Lattice Field Theory (SLFT) presents a new model of elementary particles and space which attempts to fulfill Buckminster Fuller's vision that his "synergetic geometry" [1, 2] represents the actual "coordinate system employed by nature" [3].
SLFT models space as a deformable, discrete, Planck scale lattice that it defines as the "synergetic field"--a unified field from which all physical phenomena arise. SLFT models all the standard model's elementary particles as nothing more nor less than local deformations of this field.
Figure 1: The Synergetic Field. A tiny section of the synergetic field. This section shows a “10 X 10 X 10”, three-dimensional array of 1000 atomic units of the synergetic field. These Planck scale atomic units of the field are called "isomorphic vector equilibria". These isomorphic vector equilibria come in left-handed and right-handed versions. The illustration shows a tiny section of the synergetic field encompassing 1000 left-handed vector equilibria. For visual clarity, the second set of 1000 right-handed vector equilibria, which are situated in the interstitial spaces between the 1000 illustrated left-handed vector equilibria, are not shown.
The name of this new model is “synergetic lattice field theory”: “synergetic” because it’s core geometric formulation is derived from Buckminster Fuller’s synergetic geometry, and “lattice field theory” because it describes a discrete field which permeates all of space. The central premise of SLFT is simply that the permutations, local deformations, and dynamics of the universal substratum defined by the synergetic field give rise to all the observed physical phenomena in the universe.
This model is conceptually similar to the vision of a unified field outlined by Einstein and Infeld [4] (albeit in a discrete versus a continuous form) in which there is no distinction between matter and the universal field defined by space itself. In this model all local manifestations of matter and energy, such as elementary particles, are nothing other than distortions of an underlying, all pervading, unified spatial field.
[1] R. B. Fuller, Synergetics, Macmillan, New York, 1978.
[2] R. B. Fuller, Synergetics 2, Macmillan, New York, 1979.
[3] R. B. Fuller, Synergetics, Macmillan, New York, 1979, p. 24.
[4] A. Einstein, L. Infeld, The Evolution of Physics, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1938, pp. 241-243.