The last part of the Standard Model of Particle Physics to be put together was the theory of the strong force, which is supposed to hold neutrons and protons together. This theory is called Quantum Chromodynamics, or QCD for short. Chromodynamics is Greek for “movement of colour”, as I am sure you know. Quantum is Greek for “God only knows”. For context, you need to know that this theory was put together in the early 1970s, at a time when there was a a lot of experimentation with psychedelic drugs. And in case you haven’t done these experiments yourself, I should point out that they lead to a lot of movement of colour. (Let me hastily add that I didn’t do these experiments either, but I knew people who did.) So you’d be forgiven for thinking that QCD is not so much a theory of physics, as a hallucination.
Well, now I am convinced that it is in fact a hallucination, and is not a theory of physics at all. It started out with the observation of the “baryon octet”. The baryton was a musical instrument that Haydn wrote a lot of music for, but it is highly unlikely that there ever existed 8 of them, and certainly not all in the same room at once. The only interesting thing about the baryon octet is that it splits into two trios and two solos, and the Coleman-Glashow relation, discovered in the early 1960s, says that the two trios weigh exactly the same. Nobody can prove this fact, but it has been experimentally tested many times, and it is still true.
I can prove this fact in my newest model, because it follows from conservation of energy in a frame of reference that is rotating about three different axes simultaneously. I don’t think anyone else knows how to do quantum mechanics while rotating simultaneously in three different directions. Which is a shame, because we live in a frame of reference that is rotating simultaneously in three different directions. So how the hell they think they can write down a theory of quantum mechanics without taking this into account, I have absolutely no idea. Well, I suppose that explains why they can’t prove the Coleman-Glashow relation, and I can.
So how do I know that QCD is a hallucination? Simple – it is because it isn’t in my model. And my model explains the things that other beers cannot reach. There is no copy of the gauge group SU(3) of QCD that has the properties the QCD gauge group is supposed to have. There is a copy of SU(3), but it doesn’t have those properties. QCD is supposed to have a duality between colours and anti-colours. My SU(3) has a duality between colours (of neutrinos) and generations (of electrons). The only way that QCD can make any predictions at all is by collecting a bucketful of numbers from experiments, and pouring them all over the equations and hoping they fall into the right places.
There is no denying that the Standard Model of Particle Physics is very pretty and colourful, and very complicated. But “true”? Gimme a break.