Natural Science Forum / Physics / Particle Physics / May 2007

I have maintained a general interest in particle physics over a period
of some thirty years. The current concerns over string theory and the
"need" for a Higgs field lead leave me with the impression that the
discipline has intellectually self-contorted to an irredeemable extent
with regard to current theories.

The following is highly speculative and based upon an almost
unforgivable dearth of supporting evidence. However, it may just have
a faint and relevant resonance.

As a student, I was introduced the concept of waveform functions which
described discreet 3d bodies. This has lead me to wonder whether the
current four force carriers or a parent force, might have discrete
energies or bands for which it/they are self-confining, exhibit fields
dependent their confinement conformation and generate the observed
fundamental particles. Such a "solution "might circumvent the need for
the apparently exotic and somewhat tenuous consensus which seems to
prevail. It might also offer a simple description of dark matter.

Paul Mc Crory