ARTICLE 5 OF 9

Note: For the benefit of those who might not have read the previous articles, the foundational basis of Zeron Theory is repeated at the beginning of each article (in italics).


THE MYTH OF THE PHOTON

This article uncovers the myth that the Photon is a particle. To do this in a very short article I am going to start with some models that were more rigorously derived in the original development of the theory. You can get more information by following the link at the end of this article.


The Basic Foundational Model

* There is an Aether. It consists of an all-pervasive 'atmosphere' of prime particles called Zerons
* All Zerons are identical, and are totally elastic, frictionless, have inertial mass but zero gravitational mass, and come in two varieties, fast and slow.
* Fast Zerons travel at a velocity of root 2 x c and inter-collide to form a type of Aether which we have named the Cosma. The Cosma is a resonant Perfect Fluid.
* Matter consists of resonating agglomerations of Slow Zerons held together by pressure from the Cosma.
* Matter resonates at a frequency different to that of the Cosma.
* The Zeron constitutes an unimaginably small class of matter and can be shown to have a mass of 7.39 x10p-46 gms compared to an electron mass of 9.11 x 10p-28 gms. There are therefore 1, 33 x 10p18 Zerons in an electron!


The Basic Foundational Atom

Consider the hydrogen atom. The Proton nucleus consists of an agglomeration of slow resonating Zerons within the resonant Cosma. Their interaction produces a denser region in the Cosma in the form of a spherical standing wave shell of Zerons. This is the electron shell.
Light emanates from the atom after it is first excited so that the electron shell jumps to the next permissible radius and then collapses to emit an outwardly expanding sphere of light manifested as a series of Zeron impact waves travelling through the Cosma at a velocity c in every direction.


This description of light emission, like most things in physics is not quite so simple. Looking back at the Zeron model of the atom, we have a fuzzy looking nucleus encompassed by a radially constrained electron shell. We also found that there are no electrons in this shell. This immediately removes one of physics most enduring problems.

On the assumption that there is a electron doing some sort of jig around the nucleus, Heisenberg, speaking about emission of light from the atom said

"...but this is not supposed to happen with the electron: instead the frequency of vibration of the emitted light is said to lie somewhere between the orbital frequency before the mysterious jump and the orbital frequency after the jump. All this is sheer madness."

The plain fact is that even now there is no convincing model in conventional physics for emission of light from the atom. What an extraordinary situation when one considers the mega-bucks that are spent on physics research each year! We are now going to try and remedy that situation.

Going back to the electron shell, we saw that it is a resonating entity caused by the interaction between a resonating nucleus and a resonating Cosma. A thin shell is formed in which there is superabundance of fast Zerons. Because it's radially constrained the collisions between Zerons are almost entirely tangential. Now we excite this shell by temporarily energising the encompassing Cosma. The shell is now out of synch with the nucleus and the shell has to increase to the next ''permissible'' radius. This radius is obtained by adding one ''de Broglie'' wavelength to the circumference at which point, the shell once more becomes resonant. The Cosma now reverts to its original energy level leaving the shell out of synch once more. What follows is the squeezing of the shell to a smaller radius and a smaller surface area. This means ejecting Zerons, which it does by creating an outwardly traveling Zeron impact waveform consisting of 10p5 to 10p6 tangential oscillations in the form of an expanding shell. We recognise this as light.

So where is the Photon? The short answer is that there isn't one, only a rapidly expanding shell of transverse Zeron on Zeron impact waves. It is important to note that the resonant spherical outwardly expanding light shell does not transport Zerons. The Zerons within the Cosma only serve to pass on the Zeron momentum by means of Zeron-on-Zeron impact. So apart from their normal resonant movement, the Zerons in the Cosma remain, on average, sensibly where they were as the spherical light wave passes though. However, if the positions of individual Zerons were to be monitored, it would be found that if the normal resonant movement is averaged out or ignored, all the affected Zerons will travel on average one "pitch" (the average distance between two Zerons in the Cosma) per oscillation of the light wave. At the end of the line, when the wave-packet hits a particle detector or another particle, the foremost Zeron in line dumps its kinetic energy and so does each of the subsequent Zerons as they travel one pitch and collide with the body at which they are aimed. The aggregate of the transfer of momentum for the entire wave train is what is recognized as the energy of a photon and is detected as the dynamic impact of photon ''particles''. The rapid "machine gun" impact of Zerons is fast enough to be, in effect, an instantaneous event in the life of a comparatively much more massive electron or other particle. The particle behaves as though it has been hit by a particle whose mass is equivalent to the sum of the Zerons that have impacted on it.
The surprising conclusion from this model is that that there is actually no such thing as a photon! As in the case of the electron, the ''photon'' will form in any experiment designed to detect photon particles. Only a piece of apparatus built to detect photons will detect these as light "particles". This is equivalent to determining the position of a photon. All other light detecting equipment will measure the movement of a traveling waveform and the particle will not be perceived to coalesce. This is equivalent to measuring the "momentum of a photon". Thus the Uncertainty Principle is once more upheld but in a way that Heisenberg could never have imagined! It's either a wave with momentum or a perceived particle with position not a property-deficient Photon. This model as we saw previously also solves the particle/wave duality problem as typified by Young's double slit experiment and its derivatives.

If this article has piqued your interest you could go to www.tedjaeckel.com for more information. In Article 6 I will be revealing the meaning of Planck's Constant and describing how the mass of the Zeron was derived.

I hope I have not trodden on too many TOEs. Critique of what is presented here is always welcome.

Ted Jaeckel
(Tedjay)