Imagine a Photon
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We can understand this universe and how it behaves just as much as we understand the lowly photon, and in as much as we don't understand all the complexities of the photon, we don't understand the workings of our universe. For example, do we even know how many wave cycles it takes to make one photon? Recent postings in forums indicate that there is uncertainty about this among the scientific elite. If we think of the photon as anything other than one cycle of an electromagnetic disturbance in space we lose a very basic connection between relativity phenomena and the speed of light. We lose the logic behind the Lorentz transformations that were formulated from the proposition that: the final irreducible constituent of all physical reality is the electromagnetic field.
The only way we know of to construct a particle from a photon of energy is to bend
its path into a circle exactly one wave length in circumference.
In as much as we allow the number of wave cycles of a photon to be undetermined in our thinking, we allow our understanding of the workings of this universe to undetermined. We can logically develop a concept of the nature of things when we start from a basic constant thing. We can have a photon of one wave length. Since it is one wave length and we know its energy precisely, we can know that it exists as saturated points of electric and magnetic amplitude surrounded by fields of electric and magnetic amplitude that diminish as the inverse square of distance. This tells us the origin of quantum phenomena. So with the concept of a photon that exists as one wave length we suddenly know how come the quantum as well as how come relativity, |
There can not be
more than one wave cycle in the circle, otherwise the electric charge would not be
as we see it. When we bend one wave length of an electromagnetic wave into a complete
circle we see front to back resonance and one polarity of electric charge on the
outside of the circle all the way around. We see a particle of mass.