The following are some questions I have had in my mind for some time now but I have no one to direct them to. I just joined this website and found the article on the Weak Force. Heads up : these questions are not necessarily about this particular article and are theoretical more than scientific ( for those of you reading them who haven"t got a lot of patience with quantum "philosophy" and theory ) . . .
When we are searching for the ultimate description of a process such as the Weak Force are we trying to describe what "IS the field" or what is "IN the field" ? If the universe is made up of both what is "the field" ( and indivisible ) as well as what is "in the field" ( and divisible ) then is the line that signals the difference between these "two parts of the same whole" the exotic "top quark" ? Can we see "the field" or only what is "in the field" ? If we cannot see anything past the top quark haven"t we then moved from looking for something "in the field" to looking at "the field" itself ? If "the field" is indivisible, does the Weak Force only work on what is "in the field" that is divisible ? I ask these questions because at some point don"t we actually move from describing what is "in the field" to attempting to describe "the field" itself ? When we are not able to detect any more decay brought on by the Weak Force have we not reached "the field" itself ? Have we not then reached a place in the universe where our billions of dollars worth of scientific equipment have no possibility of being useful -- a place that our equipment cannot measure -- because the laws governing what is "in the field" are not the same as those impacting "the field" itself ? And would this not be why we cannot "see" decay past a certain point that is brought on by the
Weak Force ?