"James P. Hogan - The Genesis Machine" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hogan James P)

filling again with new patterns of symbols. Clifford watched intently, his
mind totally absorbed with trying to penetrate the hidden laws within which
Nature had fashioned its strange interplays of space, time, energy and matter.
In the early 1990s, a German theoretical physicist by the name of Carl
Maesanger had formulated the long-awaited mathematical theory of Unified
Fields, combining into one interrelated set of equations the phenomena of the
"strong" and "weak" nuclear forces, the electromagnetic force, and gravity.
According to this theory, all these familiar fields could be expressed as
projections into Einsteinian space-time of a complex wave function propagating
through a higher-order, six-dimensional continuum. Being German, Maesanger had
chosen to call this continuum eine sechsrechtwinkelkoordinatenraumkomplex. The
rest of the world preferred simply sk-space, which later became shortened to
just k-space.
Maesanger's universe, therefore, was inhabited by k-waves -- compound
oscillations made up of components that could vibrate about any of the six
axes that defined the system. Each of these dimensional components was termed
a "resonance mode," and the properties of a given k-wave function were
determined by the particular combination of resonances that came together to
produce it.
The four low-order modes corresponded to the dimensions of relativistic
space-time, the corresponding k-functions being perceived at the observational
level simply as extension; they defined the structure of the empty universe.
Space and time were seen not merely as providing a passive stage upon which
the various particles and forces could act out their appointed roles, but as
objective, quantifiable realities in their own right. No longer could empty
space be thought of as simply what was left after everything tangible had been
removed.
Addition of the high-order modes implied components of vibration
occurring at right angles to all the coordinates of normal space-time. Any
effects that followed from these higher modes were incapable, therefore, of
occupying space in the universe accessible to man's senses or instruments.
They could impinge upon the observable universe only as dimensionless points,
capable of interacting with each other in ways that depended on the particular
k-functions involved; in other words, they appeared as the elementary
particles.
The popular notion of a particle as a tiny, smooth ball of "something" -
- a model that, because of its reassuring familiarity, had been tenaciously
clung to for decades despite the revelations of quantum wave mechanics -- was
finally put to rest for good. "Solidness" was at last recognized as being
totally an illusion of the macroscopic world; even the measured radius of the
proton was reduced to no more than a manifestation of the spatial probability
distribution of a point k-function.
When high- and low-order resonances occurred together, they resulted in
a class of entities that exhibited a reluctance to alter their state of rest
or steady motion as perceived in normal space, so giving rise to the quantity
called "mass." A 5-D resonance produced a small amount of mass and could
interact via the electromagnetic and weaker forces. A full 6-D resonance
produced a large amount of mass and added the ability to interact via the
strong nuclear force as well.
The final possibility was for high-order modes to exist by themselves,