I graduated from Caltech in math, class of 1999. Since then I have had a variety of jobs but I have been working on physics independently for the duration. I haven't been a member of the physics community. (That's why I haven't posted this to arxiv.) But I have done a lot of research. Suffice to say, these papers are the culmination of significant effort.

Knot physics is a proposed unified field theory. It attempts to describe all of the fields, forces, and particles using a single set of assumptions. The Standard Model is the most commonly used model of physics. However, the Standard Model has several recognized inconsistencies. There have been many proposals that attempt to describe physics without inconsistency. Knot physics is such a proposal.

One naturally may think that knots probably means strings. The two approaches share some ideas but they are different. String theory describes particles as non-pointlike objects (e.g. strings) in spacetime. Knot physics describes particles as being knots in the spacetime manifold.

Here are the most important points:

1) This model can do the things that the Standard Model can do. In many cases one can just replace a particle from the Standard Model with a knot from knot physics and everything works the same. In some cases, one can use knot physics to explain aspects of the Standard Model. For example, the ψ² wavefunction probability has an interesting geometric interpretation.

2) This model can do things that the Standard Model can't. The simple assumptions of knot physics result in simple conclusions. The Lagrangian of knot physics has only two terms. The complexity of particle interactions results from their topology. Because everything is just geometry and topology, it is easy to establish that physical quantities remain finite.

3) This model can do things that the Standard Model never intended to. For example, there is a convenient explanation for why we have the particles that we do. Specifically, knot physics produces topologies that have three generations and correspond to charged leptons, neutrinos, and quarks (both up and down type). Each force carrier boson corresponds to its own type of geometric distortion on the spacetime manifold.

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