The well known topological monopoles originally investigated by ’t Hooft and Polyakov are known to arise in classical Yang-Mills-Higgs theory. With a pure gauge theory it is known that the classical Yang-Mills field equation do not have such finite energy configurations. Here we argue that such configurations may arise in a semi-quantized Yang-Mills theory, where the original gauge group, SU(3)...

Neutrino oscillations are treated from the point of view of relativistic first quantized theories and compared to second quantized treatments. Within first quantized theories, general oscillation probabilities can be found for Dirac fermions and charged spin 0 bosons. A clear modification in the oscillation formulas can be obtained and its origin is elucidated and confirmed to be inevitable fro...

An alternative quantum field theory for gravity is proposed for low energies based on an attractive effect between contaminants in a BoseEinstein Condensate rather than on particle exchange. In the “contaminant in condensate effect,” contaminants cause a potential in an otherwise uniform condensate, forcing the condensate between two contaminants to a higher energy state. The energy of the syst...

Functional quantum theory is a new formulation of quantum theory and a new field theoretic calculational procedure which allows the treatment of quantized fields with positive metric as well as with indefinite metric beyond perturbation theory. It was developed by Stumpf and coworkers, cf. Stumpf [1]. In particular, it was devoted to the evaluation of Heisenberg's quantized nonlinear spinor equ...

Physical states in canonically quantized, finite, 4 dimensional quantum gravity. Quantized constraints of the full theory. Abstract This is the first in a series of papers outlining an algorithm to explicitly construct a finite quantum theory of gravity in Ashtekar variables. The algorithm is based upon extending some properties of a special state, the Kodama state for pure gravity with cosmolo...