FriendlyFacts wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:40 pm
In my view "photons" are a part of the Einsteinian Dark Age. Einstein reified Planck's quantum of action into discrete "quanta". Later, these were given the fancier name "photons". What is a "photon" in your theory? I don't see the point in having an aether and still keeping "photons", they are, to my mind, incompatible.
A good article on the subject is "Anti-photon" by nobel laureate Willis Eugene Lamb, who wrote:
It should be apparent from the title of this article that the author does not like the use of the word "photon". In his view, there is no such thing as a photon. Only a comedy of errors and historical accidents led to its popularity among physicists and optical scientists. I admit that the word is short and convenient. Its use is also habit forming. [...] It is high time to give up the use of the word "photon", and of a bad concept which will shortly be a century old. Radiation does not consist of particles.
W. E. Lamb, Anti-photon, Applied Physics B Vol. 60 No. 2-3 (1995)
I am sympathetic to the non-particle non-photon kind of aether wave-theory. Wave theory accords with my heroes Ivor Catt & Forrest Bishop. They believe in the Heaviside form of the transverse electro magnetic wave theory of electricity etc. They believe that an electron is merely a rolled up TEM. But, i have now moved ahead, & i have my own theory that photons make every thing that we see & feel.
Photons are an annihilation propagating at c, the annihilation having a helical shape.
Photons include radial radiation propagating at c, which i call photaenos, radiating from the (central) helix.
The helix results in a faux wavelength, due to the photaenos linked to the helix.
The helix is in effect a coil, with a front & a rear.
Photaenos form a screw, radiating out to infinity for eternity.
Photaenos give us charge.
If the helix is moved or accelerated in some way in some direction then the photaenos give us magnetism.
If a photon (helix) forms a loop (by biting its own tail) then it thusly forms an electron (or some other proper particle).
We call it a confined photon, otherwise if not confined we can call it a free photon.
And there is a 3rd form of photon, semiconfined, which i call an elekton.
Elektons hug the surface of metals etc, & propagate on a surface at c.
Elektons give us elekticity (wrongly called electricity)(wrongly attributed to electrons).
Free photons are what we call light.
Elektons can give us what we call radio waves.
Electrons can live on a surface, & give us static charge.
Movement of electrons can give us radio waves (similar to elekton radio waves).