By
Vernon Brown
H. Ziegler pointed out in 1909 that if the most elemental constituents of mass all moved at the invariable speed of light, relativity would be a natural result given the classic view of space-time. This idea has been investigated many times during the last hundred years and no one has been successful in their attempts to refute it. The Lorentz equations that describe relativistic effects fall right out of Zieglers construct. Nothing else is needed; it's all right there.
We can assert now that the most elemental components of mass do all move at the invariable speed of light just as Ziegler suggested a hundred years ago. That is how nature makes relativity.
We know of only one thing that moves at the invariable speed of light. That is light itself. Photons must then be the most elemental component of mass. Einstein must have known this; he stated it several times, but this was not Einstein's idea. He said, "by the turn of the 20th century, most people [scientists] had come to believe that the final irreducible constituent of mass was the electromagnetic field". It is indeed a fact that there is no component of mass that cannot be reduced solely to electromagnetic fields.
But that idea did not square with Quantum Physics and so was finally abandoned by main stream scientists. If you read Einstein closely, however, it is easy to see that he himself never completely abandoned the idea.
Einstein also knew from the observations of many scientists that light possessed a positive feedback. Scientists observed that when gravity bends light the amount of the bend is double what it should be because of this feedback. Now it has never been done, but it clearly could be done, to show mathematically that there is some bend radius that would form a stable resonating pattern.
This feedback results from an imbalance in the photon's electromagnetic field caused by the asymmetry due to the photon's bent path. This same asymmetry produces the charge on an electron and on the other subatomic particles.
To be resonant, the complete pattern would need to take place in one wave length of the light. Any one who does this mathematical test will find that the energy of that wave length is equal to that of an electron. And so the cause of relativity leads us directly to the natural cause of mass.