THE NATURE OF THE PHOTON

 

THE PHOTON

If you ‘have skin in the game’, that is, if you are a physicist who's ego and career are dependent on adherence to the enduring fundamental beliefs upon which quantum mechanics is founded and you therefore cannot afford to permit heretical ideas to take root in your mind …….

…….you must stop reading now.

“If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”

Continuing beyond this point requires the serious physicist to: 

automatically and without analysis deny this challenge presented to their beliefs. thus renouncing their intellectual integrity, or

provide logical, natural language explanations for any errors found, or

become a leader in the new field of science in which the label of Quantum MECHANICS is fully justified.

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Scientists 'know', and accept that all matter consists entirely of energy but have no clear understanding of what that actually means.

Their 'theories' make no attempt to clarify the issue, nor do they show evidence of a serious intellectual engagement with understanding how energy became matter in the first place.

A belief that atoms of matter contain a tremendous amount of energy spurred the development of man-made nuclear fission in which atoms are split to release that energy as an incredibly powerful weapon.]

In the absence of an understanding of the nature and behavioral characteristics of energy [photons] it is not possible to comprehend the manner in which they interact with one another and combine to form what we consider to be normal matter.

Although I've been unable to discover a natural language logical description of the process involved other than my own [explained below], it is clear that micro world photon packets of energy engage, and interact with the matter of the macro world.

Clearly, this implies macro and micro entity characteristics capable of mutual engagement and interaction.

What remains to be disclosed is the specific nature of the characteristics enabling this interaction.

Those prepared to set aside preconceived notions about the nature of ‘light’ [photons], and also able to pursue an alternate concept for the nature and behavioral characteristics of photons in a thought experiment, should, find themselves intrigued to follow an interesting series of cascading, quite astoundingly simple consequences revealing almost obvious explanations for previously obscure phenomena.

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Consider a single photon as comprising a combination of matter and energy.

Picture an immeasurably small physical object with commensurate mass emitted from an atom and accelerated by the force of its associated energy.

Assume the photon mass is a minimum at the instant of emission and its energy is at a maximum.

With the minuscule mass accelerated by its associated relatively powerful emission energy it will increase in speed very rapidly, accumulating inertial mass as it does so.

As mass accumulates it increasingly opposes acceleration until a point is reached at which all of the photon's energy is expressed as mass and no further acceleration is possible.

With the cessation of acceleration, inertial mass no longer exists and photon mass reverts to its intrinsic minute value, once again subject to the accelerating force of its newly re-released energy component.

The photon in this model continues to be accelerated periodically as described, progressing rectilinearly as it cycles repeatedly through its materialized and energized phases in a precisely repeated process.

High energy photons are emitted under greater acceleration than low energy photons, causing them to achieve terminal speed more rapidly and reverting to the low-mass, high-energy condition over a shorter distance than lower energy photons.

Thus, higher energy photons have a shorter repetition period [seen as a higher frequency] than lower energy photons.

The photons normally interacting with the material world of our experience are considered, in this theory, to possess a negative charge commensurate with their instantaneous mass.

The charge of a photon is far below any measurable level.

To form some idea of just how minute this photon charge actually is we need to keep in mind Einstein's idea: “It is therefore to be assumed that the kinetic energy of an electron goes into the production of many light energy quanta." Einstein

And when we recall that the charge of an individual electron is itself immeasurably small, we gain some insight into why the photon, as only one of many making up an electron's charge [more on this in other documents] will permanently defy measurement.

That is, their charge at emission is almost zero, increasing to a maximum [still undetectably low] at the point of maximum speed and mass and reverting to almost zero with the shedding of inertial mass.

It is the charge of a photon that permits it to engage and interact with normal atomic matter, exerting an influence upon it and being influenced by the atomic matter commensurate with the instantaneous mass and charge of the photon and the mass/charge relationship between the interacting objects.

Understanding the characteristics and behavior of photons, their interactions leading to the formation of all matter and to the behavior of all matter throughout the universe suggests that professor Richard Feynman had an inspirational insight into reality when he said:

“You might wonder how such simple actions could produce such a complex world. It's because phenomena we see in the world are the result of an enormous intertwining of tremendous numbers of photon exchanges and interferences. Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”

A full grasp of the foregoing concepts leads an inquisitive and logical mind to an understanding of many, if not all, previously mysterious phenomena observed in reality and sets aside all previously accepted explanations relying upon such ideas as light waves going back in time to interfere with themselves.


[See: THE ORIGIN OF MATTER