[General] Photon: Particle or Wave?

[Chip Akins]

Hi John M.

 

A question for you.  Regarding the example of the rubidium atom you gave
which has about an 8 meter long “photon”. With a wavelength of 795 nm
that seems to be about 9804533 wavelengths in the photon.   In your mind
does this indicate that photons are quantized because the emitters have a
specific resonant frequency of emission and can only emit a certain
quantity of energy to achieve their new resonant state at a lower energy?
In other words, do you feel that quantization is not an inherent property
of photons, but is imposed on them by the emitters? Do you see any evidence
that should cause us to assume that the engines of quantization the spin ½
fermions?

 

Reading your work is very compelling.  Can’t put it down, but it may take
many days to digest most of the important points. What takes the most time
is running the math and testing it in various scenarios to make sure I
understand the implications.

 

I want to thank you for your contributions to this discussion.

 

Chip

 

 

 

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Subject: [General] Photon: Particle or Wave?

 

Hello Everyone,

 

I want to address the question: Does a photon contain a particle-like
nugget of energy? I believe that all the experiments are compatible with a
photon being a wave distributed in length and width. A photon’s energy is
not quantized - its angular momentum is quantized.  The photon’s quantized
angular momentum gives the appearance of a particle with quantized energy.
For example, the energy of a photon depends on the frame of reference of
observation (Doppler shift). If a photon is reflected off a moving mirror,
its energy appears to be changed (not quantized) but its angular momentum
is constant (quantized). 

 

It is often said that a photon possesses “wave - particle duality”.  I am
saying there is only the appearance of a particle-like property because the
wave possesses quantized angular momentum. Even electrons are quantized
waves.  The standard model says that all particles are merely
“excitations” of the more fundamental fields.  I explain exactly the wave-
based mechanism of this excitation. Yesterday I sent two technical articles
which clearly describe the quantum mechanical properties of the energetic
vacuum.  The articles quantify zero point energy, wave amplitudes,
impedance of spacetime, and energy density of spacetime.  They show how the
wave structure of spacetime can exhibit superfluid properties which
isolates angular momentum into quantized units of ħ and ½ ħ. Therefore,
if you have read the articles you will understand when I say that the
photon does not contain a particle-like nugget of energy.  All the energy
is in the photon’s distributed wave.  It only appears to possess a
particle-like nugget of energy because spacetime is imposing quantization
on its angular momentum.  

 

There are many experiments which support the contention that a photon does
not possess a particle-like nugget of energy.  First, all the double slit
experiments are indicating that the photon propagates through both slits
simultaneously.  Imagine a double slit experiment conducted with two slits
that are separated by 5 meters. If the light source is a distant star and
the double slits are placed so that both slits are in the aperture of a 10
meter telescope, then the classical double slit interference pattern would
appear in the focal plane of the telescope (assumes some wavelength
selection). This interference pattern appears even if only one photon per
second makes it to the focal plane.  There is no particle-based explanation
of this effect. 

 

There are numerous experiments which show that the emission of a photon
happens over a time period corresponding to the inverse if the emission
bandwidth. The following articles have numerous references which support
this:

http://www3.uji.es/~planelle/APUNTS/ESPECTROS/jce/JCEphoto.html

http://www.conspiracyoflight.com/photon/photon.html

For example, a rubidium atom has a spectral line called the D1 transition.
When a rubidium atom goes through this transition, it emits a photon over
about 26 ns.  This implies that this photon has a wave train that extends
over a distance of about 8 meters.  Furthermore, the spectral line width of
this rubidium transition has a bandwidth that also implies a wave packet
with this physical length using a Fourier transform.  This is not just an 8
meter uncertainty in the location of the photon’s energy packet; it is an
actual wave train that is 8 meters long at a wavelength of about 795 nm.
The waves are also extended in width. The waves have a physical shape that
can be shown to possess ħ of angular momentum.

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