My Own Contributions
in the field of
Photon Physics
Vernon Brown
It has been over 200 years now that wise men began to suspect that the final
irreducible constituent of all physical reality is the electromagnetic
field. I first encountered that statement in an article
by Albert Einstein some time around 1966. I had never even heard this mentioned
in school, so I began to collect little tidbits of information that might support
that concept.
This writing is an attempt to record my own contributions to that line of thinking. These contributions came as I tried to understand whether a consistant theory
could be based upon the idea that the final irreducible constituent of all physical
reality is the electromagnetic field. Was it really possible that the universe might consist solely of electromagnetic phenomena and nothing else?
The first obvious thing is that relativity phenomena is a natural
consequence of that construct of matter. The next obvious thing I realized was that
space and time must be fixed in order to produce relativity phenomena.
As soon as I realized this, I knew why Einstein could not possibly
finish his Unified Field Theory.
Relativity phenomena comes about naturally in an electromagnetic universe in which
space and time are invariant. The shape and the time-experience of
matter must distort to accommodate motion. I saw that the Lorentz
transformations can be derived from that postulate alone.
Postulate: The final irreducible constituent
of all physical reality is the electromagnetic field.
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