Chronoscalar Field Theory XVII: Color, Confinement, and the Strong Interaction

Abstract

In Chronoscalar Field Theory the only fundamental field is the chronoscalar condensate T(x ) with 3 a permanent cosmological gradient rT created by a single Machian event. Papers XIV–XVI showed 4 that gravity, inertia, electromagnetism, and quantum entanglement geometry all emerge from the 5 gradient structure of T and its transverse fluctuations. 6 In this seventeenth paper we extend the construction to the strong interaction. We show that 7 non-abelian color gauge symmetry is not fundamental but arises from the frame degeneracy of 8 transverse directions in the T-orthogonal bundle. A local choice of three orthonormal transverse 9 basis vectors defines an internal “color frame”, and local rotations of this frame generate an emergent SU(3) gauge field. The gluon field Aa   10 appears as the connection associated with parallel transport of this color frame, and the field strength Fa    11 is the chronoscalar curvature of the transverse bundle. 12 Confinement follows from the energy cost of twisting rT over macroscopic distances: color 13 flux tubes are quantised strands of transverse-bundle curvature whose energy grows linearly with 14 separation. Baryons and mesons correspond to color-neutral topological composites of these strands. 15 No fundamental Yang–Mills action is assumed; the entire QCD sector emerges from the same parent 16 chronoscalar action already used for gravity and electromagnetism.

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