Knot physics predictions for the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider will experiment with particle collisions at energies than have never been achieved before. Many competing unification theories predict experimental results at the LHC. How do those predictions compare with results one would expect using knot physics?
No Higgs boson.
One of the most common predictions for the LHC is a Higgs boson. The Higgs boson is consistent with many theories and necessary for several. However, the Higgs boson is not consistent with knot physics. Therefore, knot physics predicts that no Higgs boson will be observed.
No supersymmetric particles.
Supersymmetric particles are partners for the oberved particles and they are features of supersymmetry unification theories. Knot physics does not use or allow for supersymmetric particles and therefore we predict that they will not be observed.
Extra dimensions.
Knot physics relies upon the assumption that spacetime is a 4-manifold embedded in a 6-dimensional Minkowski space. Therefore knot physics assumes extra dimensions. (This is different from the description of extra dimensions where spacetime is a 4+n-manifold with n compact dimensions, as in some string theories.) How might those extra dimensions manifest in particle collisions? For low energy collisions, particle velocities remain parallel to flat spacetime and extra dimensions would have no effect. However, in very high energy collisions, it is possible that the collision would actually create a transverse wave in spacetime. Though the wave would be undetectable, it could manifest as seemingly missing energy.
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