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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Dear Richard, Andrew and everyone,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:blue" lang="EN-US">My standpoint would be that given in blue</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Dear Richard,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">You have raised important questions:</span></p>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">if so, how does its nature change?</span></li></ul>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">can you 'rectify' a photon?
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">can this give only the positive OR the negative fields diverging from each component?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">If you can split or rectify a photon so that all + charge is in one part and all - charge in the other:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">are they stable over time and space as the the neutral photon is?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">If so, under what conditions? (or are they unconditionally stable for some condition?)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">if the condition fails, what happens to the charged photon?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Does a particular condition exist similar to that of a neutron. In free space it is not stable. In a nucleus it is.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">can you cut a photon in 1/2?
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">I would say no. If the definition of a photon is a single exchange event not so by definition</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:blue;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">if so, how does its nature change?
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">. Half a photon is a different photon.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">can you 'rectify' a photon?
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Not directly -yet– you need to create a particle pair</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:blue;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">if so, how do you do it?
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">not easily – you would need to get it to low enough energy to get inside it. We have neither the fast enough technology to do this nor
the (extremely robust) materials required. You need (at least) a neutron star density to start thinking about doing this</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:blue;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">if so, how does its nature change?
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Its an electron –proton pair (of course! – Look around you!)</span></li></ul>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">If you can split or rectify a photon so that all + charge is in one part and all - charge in the other:
</span>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">are the parts still photons?
<span style="color:blue">No</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">are they stable over time and space as the the neutral photon is?
<span style="color:blue">Yes, manifestly.</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:blue;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">If so, under what conditions? (or are they unconditionally stable for some condition</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">?)
Under condition that they cannot decay to a lighter configuration with the same topology.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">if the condition fails, what happens to the charged photon?
<span style="color:blue">Mu</span></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">I guess that I have assumed general relativity is required for photon stability from the beginning.
Distortion of space is required to change the local refractive index for solitonic self-focusing of the photon to give a photon its stability. I would say that a charged photon is only stable in an electron or positron. They can appear to be independent (e.g.
when the wormhole breaks, becomes delocalized), but spin momentum (as a vortex?) is conserved and it can reform (as a wormhole) or achieve stability (in a less-concentrated form) in a net-neutral environment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Does a particular condition exist similar to that of a neutron. In free space it is not sta</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">I would never consider a photon to be charged, unless it is constrained as a lepton.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:blue" lang="EN-US">Agreed</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">This includes my extension of leptons as the building blocks of all real matter (perhaps including
quarks). They might have short term existence and, if a source can be found/made and if they are actively sought, then they might be found. I do not know of any hints that would support their existence. However, this is the same problem with cold fusion or
populated deep Dirac levels. They could be produced all of the time and we would never know.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Andrew</span></p>
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"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:blue" lang="EN-US">- John Williamson.</span></p>
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