[General] Light with "self-torque"

Richard Gauthier richgauthier at gmail.com
Fri Aug 2 18:12:33 PDT 2019


Hello all,
     From my academia.edu Cosmic Quantum article discussion session. (The link is below. I encourage you all to join it if you have not already.): 

     "Yes, I do think that consciousness and mind play an important role in the cosmic quantum and in quantum mechanics in general. So I think a deeper interpretation of quantum mechanics is still needed. I appreciate Wheeler's "it from bit" approach to the creation of matter ("it") from binary information choices ("bit"). But I suggest rather the "them from ylem" approach, where fundamental particles are formed from a hypothetical primordial substance called ylem, which could be superluminal energy quanta. George Gamow (who helped develop the big bang theory) said "ylem" is an old Hebrew word meaning "material from which elements were formed". He said it also means something like "space between heaven and earth". See https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/4325 <https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/4325> . Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ylem <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ylem> . In many ancient cultures ylem was called the "cosmic egg" or the "world egg". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_egg <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_egg> . Concerning your question about how the SEQ/TEQ model is related to quantum probabilities, please see my articles "Electrons Are Spin-½ Charged Half-Photons Generating the de Broglie Wavelength" (section 11) and "The Charged-Photon Model of the Electron Fits the Schrödinger Equation" on my academia webpage at https://richardgauthier.academia.edu/research <https://richardgauthier.academia.edu/research> . In these articles I show how the de Broglie wavelength and the Schrödinger equation can be related to the spin-1/2 charged half-photon model of the electron.”

Discussion session link: https://www.academia.edu/s/9d7d43ff35/a-superluminal-energy-quantum-model-of-the-cosmic-quantum?source=link


> On Jul 18, 2019, at 4:32 PM, Richard Gauthier <richgauthier at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
>  I found a very interesting article "Can faster-than-light particles explain dark matter, dark energy and the Big Bang?" at https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/can-faster-than-light-tachyons-explain-dark-matter-dark-energy-and-the-big-bang <https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/can-faster-than-light-tachyons-explain-dark-matter-dark-energy-and-the-big-bang>. The physics article being discussed in this general article is "The birth and death of a universe" by H. M. Fried and Y. Gabellini in The European Physical Journal C at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140%2Fepjc%2Fs10052-016-4577-8 <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140%2Fepjc%2Fs10052-016-4577-8> . They propose the existence of "electrically charged, fermionic pairs of tachyons (T) and anti-tachyons (𝑇¯)" . These sound a lot like (with significant differences) the charged superluminal energy quanta composing my double-helix photon model and quantum-vortex electron/positron models at richardgauthier.academia.edu/research <http://richardgauthier.academia.edu/research> .
> 
> with best wishes,
>       Richard  
> 
>> On Jul 4, 2019, at 2:55 PM, Richard Gauthier <richgauthier at gmail.com <mailto:richgauthier at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Albrecht (and all),
>> 
>>    Thank you for reminding me of the pleasant and productive conference we participated in at Liege last August.
>> 
>>     I remember your comment but was not clear on how it could be implemented in my double-helix photon model.  The double-helix photon model is not a zitterbewegung model. The zitterbewegung term refers to the internal frequency F=2mc^2/h of the Dirac electron, and related spatial models of the electron (or other particles). My relativistic quantum-vortex zitterbewegung model of the electron (see Part 2: Crossing lightspeed at richardgauthier.academia.edu/research <http://richardgauthier.academia.edu/research>)  is shown below first for a resting electron model (on the left) and then for a very highly relativistic electron model on the right). (The electron/positron model shrinks in size as 1/gamma with increasingly gamma of the electron/positron, as can be seen from the parametric equations below). In both resting and highly relativistic cases the superluminal energy quantum (SEQ) moves along a mathematical surface — a horn torus for the resting electron or positron model. As gamma increases, this mathematical surface transforms into a sphere for a highly relativistic (large gamma) electron or positron model. Interestingly, in both cases the minimum speed of the SEQ  composing the resting model and the highly relativistic model is calculated to be c, while the SEQ's maximum speed is calculated in both cases to be c sqrt(5) = 2.236 c. Coincidence? In between these extremes, the SEC is fully superluminal for two states (electric charge and spin combinations) and goes subliminal and back to superluminal during each SEQ cycle for the other two electric charge and spin combinations. I wonder if you could reduce both of these internally superluminal (and sometimes subluminal) quantum-vortex electron/positron models to having an internal movement purely at speed c.
>> 
>>    with best wishes,
>> 
>>        Richard
>> 
>> 
>> The parametric equations for the superluminal energy quantum composing the relativistic quantum-vortex positron/electron model are given by
>> <Screen Shot 2019-07-04 at 2.34.32 PM.png>
>> Below: the resting electron model (left) and the highly relativist electron model (right). The green surfaces are mathematical surfaces along which the superluminal energy quantum (small ball with its trajectory) moves.
>> T<Screen Shot 2019-07-04 at 1.53.08 PM.png><Screen Shot 2019-07-04 at 1.55.15 PM.png>
>> 
>>> On Jul 4, 2019, at 4:03 AM, Albrecht Giese <phys at a-giese.de <mailto:phys at a-giese.de>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Richard,
>>> 
>>> you have again presented here your photon model, which has internally a superluminal motion (zitterbewegung). Why superluminal? That makes it difficult for physicists to accept your model. And as I have tried to explain to you in Liége: it is not necessary. You can have speed of light for the whole photon and also inside the photon. By taking into account special relativity, this works.
>>> 
>>> Best wishes
>>> Albrecht
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Am 02.07.2019 um 08:10 schrieb Richard Gauthier:
>>>> Hi Dan, John W, Martin and all,
>>>> 
>>>>    I just published my updated article  "Quantum-entangled superluminal double-helix photon produces a relativistic superluminal quantum-vortex zitterbewegung electron and positron, Part 2: Crossing Lightspeed”, dated 2 July. It’s at 
>>>> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard_Gauthier2/publications <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard_Gauthier2/publications>
>>>> and 
>>>> http://richardgauthier.academia.edu/research <http://richardgauthier.academia.edu/research> .
>>>> 
>>>> The just-published first part of the article  "Quantum-entangled superluminal double-helix photon produces a relativistic superluminal quantum-vortex zitterbewegung electron and positron” presented in Liege at the Vigier conference last August is there also. 
>>>> 
>>>> with best wishes,
>>>>      Richard
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 29, 2019, at 7:00 AM, Richard Gauthier <richgauthier at gmail.com <mailto:richgauthier at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Dan,
>>>>>    Thanks for your note about this discovery of a new property of light, “self-torque"
>>>>> <Screen Shot 2019-06-29 at 6.47.22 AM.png>
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> which is reminiscent of the superluminal double-helix model of the photon, though with clearly significant differences.
>>>>> 
>>>>> <PastedGraphic-24.png>
>>>>> 
>>>>> all the best,
>>>>>        Richard
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jun 29, 2019, at 2:56 AM, DataPacRat <datapacrat at gmail.com <mailto:datapacrat at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> An article I believe is of interest to the members of this list:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://phys.org/news/2019-06-property.html <https://phys.org/news/2019-06-property.html>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> New property of light discovered
>>>>>>> by Bob Yirka, Science X Network, Phys.org <http://phys.org/>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Spain and the U.S. has
>>>>>>> announced that they have discovered a new property of light—self-torque. In their paper
>>>>>>> published in the journal Science, the group describes how they happened to spot the new
>>>>>>> property and possible uses for it.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Scientists have long known about such properties of light as wavelength. More recently,
>>>>>>> researchers have found that light can also be twisted, a property called angular
>>>>>>> momentum. Beams with highly structured angular momentum are said to have orbital
>>>>>>> angular momentum (OAM), and are called vortex beams. They appear as a helix
>>>>>>> surrounding a common center, and when they strike a flat surface, they appear as
>>>>>>> doughnut-shaped. In this new effort, the researchers were working with OAM beams
>>>>>>> when they found the light behaving in a way that had never been seen before.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The experiments involved firing two lasers at a cloud of argon gas—doing so forced the
>>>>>>> beams to overlap, and they joined and were emitted as a single beam from the other side
>>>>>>> of the argon cloud. The result was a type of vortex beam. The researchers then
>>>>>>> wondered what would happen if the lasers had different orbital angular momentum and if
>>>>>>> they were slightly out of sync. This resulted in a beam that looked like a corkscrew with a
>>>>>>> gradually changing twist. And when the beam struck a flat surface, it looked like a
>>>>>>> crescent moon. The researchers noted that looked at another way, a single photon at the
>>>>>>> front of the beam was orbiting around its center more slowly than a photon at the back of
>>>>>>> the beam. The researchers promptly dubbed the new property self-torque—and not only
>>>>>>> is it a newly discovered property of light, it is also one that has never even been
>>>>>>> predicted.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The researchers suggest that it should be possible to use their technique to modulate the
>>>>>>> orbital angular momentum of light in ways very similar to modulating frequencies in
>>>>>>> communications equipment. This could lead to the development of novel devices that
>>>>>>> make use of manipulating extremely tiny materials.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The actual published article is at
>>>>>> https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1901/1901.10942.pdf <https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1901/1901.10942.pdf> . Discovered
>>>>>> via the blog article at
>>>>>> https://science.slashdot.org/story/19/06/29/0039231/new-property-of-light-discovered <https://science.slashdot.org/story/19/06/29/0039231/new-property-of-light-discovered>
>>>>>> , where one comment links to
>>>>>> https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0056086 <https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0056086>
>>>>>> , which includes the conclusion "In conclusion, twisted waves cannot
>>>>>> carry information that is independent from the information contained
>>>>>> in plane wave modes at the same frequency."
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you for your time,
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Dan Boese, aka DataPacRat
>>>>>> "Does aₘᵢₙ=2c²/Θ ? I don't know, but wouldn't it be fascinating if it were?"
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