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Old 03-08-2012, 08:20 AM
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Maybe it's just me, but quantifying spin as a boson helps me visualize a lot of this stuff. There's already a name for the spin-component of an electron that undergoes spin-charge separation to allow it to tunnel. It's called a "spinon," while the charge-component is called the "holion." The holion is pretty easy to describe: a spin 0 particle that interacts through the exchange of virtual photons (thus the charge-component), the spinon is a 1/2 spin particle that interacts through the exchange of virtual (hypothetical) spin-bosons. It must be exchanging something for it to retain it's identity as a spin-carrying component of a separated electron.

That's one thought experiment that lead me to this hypothesis. And here's the other.

Let's look at the Standard Model.

http://naturalorder.info/images/stan..._particles.png

(I'd wrap in [img] tags but it doesn't have a real white background).

Nearly each characteristic of a fermion of the standard model (as well as the W and Z bosons), corresponds to three of the bosons on the right column (mentally add in the Higgs boson, I might be going out on a limb, but do it). The charge is a result of the photon, the mass is a result of the higgs, and in the case of the quarks, color (not shown, mentally add it in) is a result of the gluon. The W and Z are exceptions in that they sort of tie the forces together in the interactions they do. A particle is defined solely by the fields it interacts with. The only character left hanging, without a corresponding boson supplying it, is spin. Thus enters my theory of a spin-boson. It was a gap that just needed to be filled.

I also wonder if monopoles can be described using quantized spin? As magnetic fields arise by the interaction of spin and electromagnetism. Will changing the way spin is applied to a particle change how electricity and magnetism arise in said particles? Even resulting in a monopole?
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