Preon - Motivations

Motivations

Preon research is motivated by the desire to explain already known facts (retrodiction), which include

• To reduce the large number of particles, many that differ only in charge, to a smaller number of more fundamental particles. For example, the electron and positron are identical except for charge, and preon research is motivated by explaining that electrons and positrons are composed of similar preons with the relevant difference accounting for charge. The hope is to reproduce the reductionist strategy that has worked for the periodic table of elements.
• To explain the three generations of fermions.
• To calculate parameters that are currently unexplained by the Standard Model, such as particle masses, electric charges, and color charges, and reduce the number of experimental input parameters required by the Standard Model.
• To provide reasons for the very large differences in energy-masses observed in supposedly fundamental particles, from the electron neutrino to the top quark.
• To provide alternative explanations for the electro-weak symmetry breaking without invoking a Higgs field, which in turn possibly needs a supersymmetry to correct the theoretical problems involved with the Higgs field. Supersymmetry itself has theoretical problems.
• To account for neutrino oscillation and mass.
• The desire to make new nontrivial predictions, for example, to provide possible cold dark matter candidates.
• To explain why there exists only the observed variety of particle species and not something else and to reproduce only these observed particles (since the prediction of non-observed particles is one of the major theoretical problems, as, for example, with supersymmetry).