[General] Bosonic and Fermionic nature of light

[Andrew Meulenberg]

Dear folks,

For the last several years, we (Hudgins, Meulenberg, and Penland) have been
studying the interference effects of identical-frequency waves. Using a
thin optical flat as a laser-beam splitter, it is possible to easily
provide closely-spaced parallel beams of coherent light that appear to
interact indefinitely (in vacuum, and even down to the individual-photon
level?).

Over the last year, in parallel with the forum discussions of the photonic
electron, the implications of this interaction have been evolving. The
first step was the recognition that the two beams were equivalent to
streams of identical particles. Furthermore, depending on their phase, the
two beams acted as both bosons and fermions. In their constructive
interactions (as a Bose condensate?) and destructive interactions (obeying
the Pauli exclusion principle?), they attracted each other when in phase
and appeared to repel one another when 180 degrees out of phase. This
observation (a phase dependence, perhaps related to charge, as suggested by
Penland) is beginning to expand into explanations and hypotheses for many
of the laws (and tools) of physics.

Since many of this group believe that leptons are self-bound photons, the
proposed dual nature of photons, which is dependent on a major
characteristic of the wave nature of light (phase), could be fundamental to
the understanding of much of physics. Despite being bosons, by definition,
photons are seen to have both bosonic and fermionic natures in their
interactions and, perhaps, within their very nature. Another concept
includes that of symmetry and parity. Within a photon and its interactions,
we can find both symmetric and anti-symmetric conditions as well as those
of even and odd parity.

Thus, within the nature of a photon, we can find the physical bases for
much of the mathematics that is the basis of theoretical physics. I believe
that the macroscopic observations, which have led to much of physics
theory, can be explained in the study of light and its interactions
(including those with itself). The reasons that this observation is not
obvious lie within our inability to 'see' the interaction. First, light is
not composed of point particles. With the exception of a few manufactured
cases, photons are many wavelengths long (up to 1E8 cycles?). Only if
photons can interact  (collectively, in time and/or space) over a large
percentage of these wavelengths will any effects be noticeable without the
aid of matter as a detector to sum over many interactions. And, even then,
it is mathematically impossible to distinguish the effects of transmission
(non-interaction?) or reflection (interaction?) in the coincidence of
identical photons. Nevertheless, the fact that the mathematics for
identical particles is different from that of identifiable particles gives
us the precedent for looking at this aspect of light.

The observation of particle (e.g., electron) interaction is possible
because the photons composing the particles have all of their high-energy
nodes collected in small enough regions for their energy density to be
sufficiently high to distort the space in which they reside. The
'permanence' of these structures depends on resonance, which provides and
depends on a fixed internal phase relationship. Thus, the particular
interaction of light with itself is reflected in the nature of matter.

Neither the statement that "light interferes with light," nor the statement
that "light does *not* interfere with light," is completely correct. It is
the combination of these two statements, along with their exceptions and
understanding, that provides the basis for understanding the physical
universe.

Andrew M.
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