Session N17 - Poster Session II.
POSTER session, Monday morning, April 22
Fran Hill NE Exhibit Hall, Albuquerque Convention Center
The driving principle in particle physics has been to determine the fundamental conditions, constraints and quantum symmetry properties of the common, underlying sub-strate of matter. Even with the last several decades of great progress, certain current issues having major implications for the Standard Model, such as the illusive Higgs boson, remain unexplained. We propose a new, revised, expanded Bootstrap picture and it's implication for the role of the vacuum structure in the Standard Model(1). In the G. Chew Model, particle, force fields and symmetry principles derive from a common footing even at the more fundamental quark-gluon, W+, Z0 and hypothesized graviton, G level. It has been suggested in the Lippman-Schwinger approach, that the bootstrap concept be extended to space-time itself (2). At this level of abstraction, where the origin of the quantum symmetry principles applies, we are driven towards the Chew conjecture. We detail the structure of the topology of the bootstrappable vacuum and the possibility of this approach for unification. (1) G. Chew, "Bootstrap Theoretical Idea", Science 161, 762 (1968) and private communication with E. A. Rauscher (1964-1988), and (2) E. A. Rauscher, "Bootstrap and a Uniform Formalism of the Four Force Fields", UCRL-20068, LBNL, 1970.