Publication Date
6-1-2024
Abstract
It is known that quantum field theories that describe fields in our usual 4-dimensional space-times are not fully consistent: they predict meaningless infinite values for some physical quantities. There are some known tricks to avoid such infinities, but it is definitely desirable to have a fully consistent theory, a theory that would produce correct results without having to use additional tricks. It turns out that the only way to have such a theory is to consider space-times of higher dimensions, the smallest of which is 10. There are complex mathematical reasons for why 10 is the smallest such dimension. However, from the physics viewpoint, it would be nice to supplement these complex mathematical reasons with a more commonsense explanation. There exists a particle-based commonsense explanation for this phenomenon. In this paper, we supplement it with a field-based commonsense explanation.
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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-24-33