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When an electric motor turns its armature some work is done. If we hold
the armature so as to cause friction, more work is done than when the armature
turns free. We say that this work action is conveyed from the motor's
internal windings to the armature by the exchange of photons. If we look
only at the energy flow in the motor's windings and have no other knowledge
of the armature, we can determine the armature's load by the amount of energy flow in the windings.
Now, lets construct a motor so that its armature is some distance away
from the driving force of the windings. We expect a speed-of-light
delay between action at the windings and action at the armature. We do see this
speed-of-light delay. We do not expect to see a delay of twice the speed
of light. We always see exactly the speed of light delay between the source
of an action and the place where the action manifests itself.
When the load on the armature increases, it uses the potential energy that
left the windings some time in the past. Instantly, a virtual photon that
left the windings in the past becomes a real power producing photon that is
absorbed in the armature. From the point of view of the armature, this photon
left the windings before the load was realized by the armature. The windings
generated the power and it was transferred to the armature at the speed of
light.
If we do not see a delay of twice the speed of light between the current
variation in the windings and the load on the armature, then we have the
basis for faster than light communication. All we need do is
measure the load on our transmitting antenna (winding) as a distant receiver
(armature) varies its reception of our signal.
We should see an instant response
to the receiver's variation.
If this is true it would explain why it is that photons seem to only move
from a source to a target when there is some means of observation present.
The explanation would be that potential is not realized unless there is
something present that is capable of realizing that potential. Photons
are only potential energy. It is as if a transmitter is signaling to
a receiver with potential energy at the speed of light. When that
potential finds a target capable of absorbing it, the energy transfer
then instantly occurs.
I do not know if this is true. It can be tested very easily, however.
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