I’ve just recently finished reading Fields of Color, a book by Rodney A Brooks. The book is about quantum field theory and it is worth the read. Quantum field theory is a theory of physics, that combines the elements of quantum mechanics with those of relativity, to describe the building blocks of matter as a variety of fields. Elementary particles are manifestations of localized energy states onto those fields.
According to this book, in quantum field theory there are six different fields. In the infinity theory, there is only one field. Yet the orientation of that field is different for different phenomena, because of the difference in direction of how the field is projected. Because of that the field appears to behave in different ways when we attempt to understand the field and its behaviour within our three dimensional perception of this universe.
In quantum field theory that field is called the quantum field. In the infinity theory it is called the aether. Yet both theories describe the same field, the same medium. I could have chosen a more modern name like quantum field instead of the old aether, but the name ‘quantum field’ suggests that the manifestations of that field are quantized, yet I’m quite certain that the aether is continuous and that the forces that act on the aether are not quantized. What I suspect is that some of the values of these forces only appear to be quantized after the projection of the field onto our physical realm. Still, I have been thinking about renaming the field because the aether associates with both old classical aether theory and many modern theories, some of which might or might not agree sufficiently with the (3D projected) interpretation of the field in the infinity theory. If the infinity theory will some day be merged with another theory, then name changes should not need to be much of a problem.
