Okay, everyone, I have some questions I'm positing to some professors. I posit them to you as well. (Many of you will recognize ideas from some of my earlier threads.) Please respond with your own thoughts, or give me an email or website which you feel would benefit me. Thanks!!

Question #1: With the expanding universe (redshifted), does the expansion occur only with “massless” facets like dark matter/energy? In other words, do the relative sizes of protons and neutrons (or even photons) also expand? Or is the relative size of a proton or electron the same today, next century, and a billion years from now even though the size of the cosmos expands?

Question #2: Is the redshift due to some inherent quality of light? Or is the redshift due to the expanding universe forcing the frequency to be stretched over greater distances causing an effective lower frequency?

Question #3: A photon of light has amplitude to its wave. Can this amplitude be construed as the radius of a spiral? In other words, might photons actually be little spirals of energy?

Dr. Russell’s webpage talks about wave interference:

http://paws.kettering.edu/~drussell/...rposition.html

And Dr. Russell’s "beat" wave oscillations especially caught my attention.

Question #4: Could a photon actually be a composite of two waves which are slightly out of phase or of slightly different frequencies? In other words, could a photon “wave packet” actually be a traveling “beat wave” (as Dr. Russell calls it) built of two waves with the radius of their cycles reflected within the combined amplitude?


My last question needs a little preparation:
  • If a photon is a spiral, it has angular velocity, and the amplitude would be the radius of the spiral.
  • To preserve the speed of light limitation, this velocity should not exceed the speed of the traveling wave (right hand grip rule).
  • If additional rotation is acquired, the directional velocity should be reduced such that no combination exceeds the speed of light. (This would be akin to a figure skater translating forward momentum into a spin and vice versa.)
  • As forward momentum is translated into angular velocity, forward velocity is reduced (figure skater).
  • A multitude of translations of photons and particles from “forward motion” into “angular rotation” would accrue as reduced directional velocity.
  • If the universe is expanding, then any facet which stops its forward momentum in the direction of expansion by turning it into angular velocity, seemingly, would start falling behind in the “parade”.

Question #5: Could “mass” actually be a translation of velocity? In other words, galaxies and particles would be “sink holes” in the curvature of space. “Massiveness” would now relate to how much forward momentum has been twisted into spins and interactions. Mass would now be more of a “dimension of time” (relative to the expanding universe). Gravity, the weak force, and the strong force could then be combined as a common force with “depth in time” (convoluted spinning and interactions) as the measure of space-time curvature. In Einstein’s E=mcc, the m would be replaced by some measure for the expansion rate of the universe.

Thanks to everyone! -JAK