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A brief review of the book: Broken Physics – The Theoretical Errors and Experimental Failures of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, by E. Comay.

A special feature of the book is a list of well-known principles of physics and their application for disproving many theoretical and experimental elements of the Standard Model. Moreover, it presents a theoretical alternative – a Lagrangian density that contains coherent interaction terms of the strong and the weak forces. This page briefly explains why the book relies on a solid basis.
  1. Here are some easily understandable claims that justify the book's program:

    1. For reading 2 pages showing valid experimental data that strongly support the book's objectives, click here.
    2. For reading less than 3 pages that describe a general argument, click here.
    3. People who object the dictum of the present particle physics establishment: "Shut up and calculate" (see the web) may use this book for playing the role of the Devil's Advocate with respect to the Standard Model. This kind of activity should be welcome because it can only improve the status of theoretical physics.

  2. Theoretical arguments.

    1. Among other issues, the book describes important theoretical elements that contemporary QFT textbooks do not discuss:
      1. As stated above, it uses self-evident constraints that every specific QFT of an elementary massive particle must abide with. These constraints are analogous to the main theorems of a mathematical theory. Every such a QFT that violates even one of the constraints is regarded as an erroneous theory.
      2. The book applies the well-known requirement: all terms of a physical expression must have the same dimension. This issue opens a fresh kind of coherence test of theories. For example, standard textbooks use the QED gauge function α(x) (x denotes the 4 space-time coordinates) in a gauge factor exp(iα(x)) that multiplies the electron's quantum function ψ [1]. Dimensional considerations of the power series expansion of the exponent exp(iα(x)) = 1 + iα(x) + ... prove that, like the pure number 1, α(x) is a dimensionless Lorentz scalar. Hence, in a sheer contradiction to the assertion of the present QED textbooks, the gauge function α(x) cannot be an arbitrary function of x. The book also proves that other dimensional problems exist in several QFT theories of the SM. Furthermore, dimensional arguments confirm that some inherent SM contradictions are uncorrectable.
    2. Beside other issues, the book also points out unnoticed contradictory statements in textbooks. For example, Feynman says that the electromagnetic 4-potential "is a four-vector" (see [2], chapter 25). In Contrast, Weinberg examines radiation and says: "The fact that A0 vanishes in all Lorentz frames shows vividly that Aμ cannot be a four-vector" (see [3], p. 251). This quite unusual situation is just one reason explaining why the book extensively analyzes the physical meaning of the electromagnetic 4-potential.
    3. For reading the main theoretical elements that are adopted by the book, click here.

  3. A general remark: Chapters 1-9 of the book discuss topics, like electrodynamics and quantum mechanics, that are understandable by every physicist. The rest of the book discusses topics that belong to the particle physics domain.


References:

[1] M. E. Peskin and D. V. Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (Addison-Wesley, Reading Mass, 1995). (See p. 78.)

[2] R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton and M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, V. II (Addison-Wesley, Reading Mass., 1965).

[3] S. Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol. I (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995).