On the Study of the Weak Force

Abstract

In the Standard Model of particle physics, the weak interaction is defined as one of the four fundamental forces of nature to explain neutron beta decay. This paper compares the decay interpretations and calculations from the mainstream Standard Model, and reconstructs the physical mechanism of neutron decay based on the Light Origin Theory. According to the Light Origin Theory, all material particles are formed by self locking of gamma ray photons. When a proton and an electron combine to form a neutron, the confinement cage of the original material particles breaks open. However, the two photon streams do not merge into a single integrated whole. Instead, two counter rotating photon streams are retained: one forward rotating gamma photon stream corresponding to proton properties, and one reverse rotating gamma photon stream corresponding to electron properties. Coexisting inside the neutron, their charge effects cancel each other, resulting in overall electrical neutrality. Inside the neutron there exist only two separate gamma photon streams; protons and electrons no longer exist as independent material particles, so there are no inter particle interactions. Owing to the intrinsically unstable nature of this coupled coexistence system of two counter rotating photon streams, a free neutron dissociates in roughly fifteen minutes. The two photon streams undergo self locking again and regenerate protons and electrons. The whole process is governed by the strong force, Coulomb force, kinetic energy and potential energy of the system. Gravitation universally exists but its magnitude is negligible at nuclear scale distances. The so called weak force does not exist in physical reality. The mainstream definition of the weak force is an artificially assigned name given to the composite energy effect produced by photon structural disintegration and reconstruction under the strong force and Coulomb force. It has no genuine mechanical formula or independent physical mechanism, and serves merely as a phenomenological fitting tool without the ontological status of a fundamental interaction.