On the Machinery of Motion
It seems to me, we have overlooked something very important for a long time. We have a great mystery -- the cause and machinery of gravity -- that we can't understand. And we've been searching hard for a solution to this seemingly unsolvable dilemma. We don't know why -- or more importantly how -- a ball falls when we drop it, or how it slows down, then accelerates toward earth when we toss it up in the air. We understand what gravity does in great detail. But we can't figure out how it operates. We've gone to great lengths to understand how this mysterious force works. We've even invented an imaginary particle named the graviton to carry this force. Which, I think, many physicists believe, must exist. Even though we have no evidence for it or even a theory of how it would operate, if we found it.
On the Machinery of Motion
It seems to me, we have overlooked something very important for a long time. We have a great mystery -- the cause and machinery of gravity -- that we can't understand. And we've been searching hard for a solution to this seemingly unsolvable dilemma. We don't know why -- or more importantly how -- a ball falls when we drop it, or how it slows down, then accelerates toward earth when we toss it up in the air. We understand what gravity does in great detail. But we can't figure out how it operates. We've gone to great lengths to understand how this mysterious force works. We've even invented an imaginary particle named the graviton to carry this force. Which, I think, many physicists believe, must exist. Even though we have no evidence for it or even a theory of how it would operate, if we found it.
At the same time, we have a very similar situation with inertia and motion and the forces that influence them. As with gravity, we understand how motion behaves, and we have accurate mathematical laws that describe this behavior. But we don't understand the machinery of motion any better than that of gravity -- that is, we don't understand it at all. Yet we easily accept the notions of inertia and motion with no question. I guess this is because inertia and motion seem more intuitively obvious than gravity. In any case, nobody is looking for the elusive motionitron. Why is that? It seems obvious that motion and gravity are related. If we worked to understand how motion works, the solution to gravitation might become obvious. But, as far as I know, almost nobody is looking. It's almost as if we're trying to understand how sail boats float. We have a lake full of canoes, motorboats, rafts and swimmers that also float. And we could easily study those. But we don't. We just focus on the sail boats. And wonder if it's because they're catching the wind, that they float.
Well, I've been thinking about motion and gravity recently and figured out how both work. And once that happened, the whole atomic world revealed itself in about a month. It's pretty simple. Anybody can understand it. It explains how everything works(including all the weird effects) at the quantum level too. This solution has been staring us in the face ever since Einstein revealed his ideas on relativity and described the warping effect of the space-time fabric. My theory purports that the space time fabric is very real and made of something we are already familiar with -- light. Not only visible light, but the whole electromagnetic spectrum. Light is a fantastically energetic force. Our universe is full of it.
In fact, I propose that the only thing in the universe is light. We already know that when mass is lost in a chemical or nuclear reaction, the energy released comes in the form of photons. And the amount of photon energy released corresponds precisely to the mass lost. That must mean that at least part of what creates mass is composed of photons. Free photons move with tremendous energy which they convert into speed. And when photons are bound in a particle they must exert their tremendous energy in some way other than moving. As if they're still trying to move, but can't. Because they are bound to other photons -- stuck in one spot in the space-time fabric. I will try to show that the energy of bound photons is spent in generating electrical forces that give rise to all 4 of the fundamental forces we know of. Those are electricity/magnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces and inertia/motion/gravity.
It might be best to start with the internals of how atoms work and progress to the larger effects of motion and gravity. But that's not how my thinking developed. So, I'm presenting this in the order that it came to me. First I'll describe what I call Einstein’s Fabric – A dynamically interwoven sea of photons pervading the universe. Then address how photons move through this fabric. Next, how massive particles or bodies attach themselves to, and move in it, when they are outside the influence of a strong gravitational field. Then how the exact same effect that makes motion work without gravity, also causes a large body like the earth to warp the light fabric just as Einstein's theory describes, and how the warped fabric causes objects near it be pulled toward it. After that, I'll go into how photons work when they are bound in the form of an atom. How they use their energy – the Feynman Force -- to cause electric repulsion and attraction; to bind atomic nuclei; and to keep atoms from collapsing.
In the progress of these ideas, I'll propose something that, if accepted, will cause a radical change in our idea about the structure of atoms -- that all the mass/energy in atoms is not confined to the tiny center. The tiny center is just the center of mass – the nucleus that holds the photons together . The only place we have, thus far, figured out how to poke at an atom to induce a reaction. It’s the same with electrons. The atomic mass outside the nucleus is composed of photons that fill the space of the atom between the nucleus and the outermost electrons, and express themselves as the weak and electric forces. These photons are attached to the center and reach out to pull and push on electrons. Around the center of the nucleus, photons are engaged in fueling a tiny nuclear machine that draws energy from photons to keep itself working. The need to keep this machine fueled is the source of motion -- including that involving gravity.
This next section was the key to solving this puzzle. But it won't be easy to accept. It is requires a significant shift from our current ideas about what light is and how it operates. My idea will seem foreign. As were the ideas that the earth moved around the sun, or that the sun could bend light, when they were discovered. I thank you for taking the time to read this and ask you to keep an open mind. Pretend you don’t know that light travels by itself. And consider This.
Light can fill the space you are in, creating clear images when it hits the back of your eye, at the rate of millions of photons per second. And it’s going every direction, bouncing all over the place. The same light can travel billions of years at 186,000 miles every second, across our whole universe, arriving in our telescopes so undisturbed that we can see other galaxies clearly. Now, consider which of these two scenarios seems less likely.
- That light does this all by itself. Without ever touching or crashing into other light, knocking it off course. No bumping or collisions.
- Or that light photons have a way to move through the traffic in the space they share, that allows them to help each other get where they’re going. Using each other’s momentum sort of like a sailboat catches the wind from one direction, to move in another.
What is Einstien’s light fabric and what are it's properties?
For a long time, I've thought that light travels by itself. That is, a photon somehow generates its own field within the space it occupies and uses that field to propel itself as it wiggles its way across the universe. Sort of like the way a snake serpentines across the sand. I thought light operated without any sand. But if that was true, how light could be bent by a gravitational field? What could pull on something that is, "pure energy, traveling by itself". How could a gravitational field affect it? As was first demonstrated in the famous eclipse observations showing that light's path actually did bend, and affirming Einstein’s understanding of the space-time fabric.
I finally realized that light HAD to have something to push or pull on. It needed some sort of sand. And the sand had to have properties that allow it to be warped by a massive body. I tried to imagine what the fabric could be. The fabric had to extend throughout the universe, since light can travel everywhere within it. It didn't take long to figure out what the sand must be. We know that the "empty space" of the universe is not really empty at all. Rather, it is filled with almost unbelievably powerful electromagnetic radiation -- photons moving with great force, in every direction, all the time, everywhere.
This next section describes my model for how light operates. Of course, it's hard to know the exact way light works. This model is necessarily mechanical. But the characteristics of the model work for all the effects I'll describe in my theory. Richard Feynman was a force. Both in science and as a human. And discovering him led me to the thinking that resulted in this theory. So it seems natural to name the force that drives my light model after him.
Photon Mechanics – The Feynman Force
- Photons are shaped in a spiral like a slinky. If you take a slinky and cut it so you have a few pieces with about 10 wraps each, and pull on them enough so they stay stretched out, you can visualize my model pretty well. In free travel, photons a have particular circular direction, like a slinky does. The free light of our universe has a clockwise orientation as it moves forward. The orientation of a photon can be changed in protons and neutrons. The nucleus of an atom generates, from the incoming photons, the proportions of right handed(negative) photons and left handed(positive) photons that it needs to balance the electrical and weak forces keeping its electrons in place.
- Photons grow and shrink in size as they gain and loose energy. Energy is traded and shared all the time in atoms. Energy is a fungible resource.
- Photons have what can be imagined mechanically as a gear on the inside edge of their slinky shape. Similar to a turning screw. But operating with the internal momentum of its own energy to push on other light. This mechanism moves from the head of a photon toward the tail, driving it forward. This is what drives the motion of light. And allows it to trade energy with other photons inside atoms. In atoms with higher energy, this mechanism moves faster.
- In free travel, photons are individuated. But in an atom, they can join together to form long photon chains. They actually become a single more energized giant photon. This is what we see in iron filings around magnets. A positive(left spinning) photon chain goes out one end and comes back in the other, recycling it’s energy(not very efficiently, though). Likewise, a piece of a photon can break off from a photon. We see this in experiments, where certain frequencies of light are shined on atoms. Depending on the energy of the incoming light, the atom ejects a portion of energy nearly equal to the incoming energy so that the atom maintains its energy balance.
Einstein’s Fabric
Imagine a photon that could be removed from the fabric. Say, the space where we are now, but when the big bang occurred. That is, outside our universe. In truly empty space with no radiation. Could that photon still move? I think not. With nothing to push off of, the most it could do is wiggle. So there must be a boundary at the edge of our light universe beyond which no photons escape.
I imagine that the boundary of our universe is very smooth. Sort of like a balloon. Air molecules bounce around inside the balloon with varying levels of kinetic energy, moving in almost every direction. When they reach the edge of the balloon, they can't go past it. The rubber pushes them back. This pushing on the rubber helps the balloon maintain its volume. If the density or the kinetic energy of the molecules in the balloon changes, its volume changes. The same seems likely true of the universe. But the universe has no skin like the balloon. The space time fabric creates its own boundary.
Everything we know about physics reveals the principle of conservation in some way. Nothing seems to get lost. Energy levels can change, but they must be traded with another entity. I guess that the light fabric also, looses nothing. All the light in the universe is contained within its boundary. Nothing in the universe is ever lost to whatever space, if any, lies beyond it.
Let's consider a universe with no massive particles. Nothing to disturb the natural energetic flow of the fabric. Just light.
To get a feel for Einstein’s Fabric, imagine throwing a cannon ball into a calm pool. The ball pushes the water out of the way. Each molecule of water exerts a force on its neighbor. And they collectively make room for the ball and then rush right in behind it spreading the energy imparted by the force of the ball in waves. The pool as a body absorbs the action and the whole pool is affected. The pool does this because all the individual molecules exert force on each other. And the body reacts like an organism. That’s very much what the fabric is like. Except that its light is much more powerful and responsive than water.
Another go way to think about it is like a stretchy fabric held tight around the edges. If you push down on a spot, the fabric around the spot you push bends toward it. Harder push, bigger warp in the shape and tension of the fabric. Same thing if you pinched a spot and moved that spot around in different directions and motions. Of course, the fabric works in all three dimensions. And it doesn’t just work by pulling. It’s moving and stitched together in every possible direction. And it has incredible power. So it can pull AND push. And it can adjust itself to bodies in it that have momentum or inertia. It is pushing you toward the earth right now.
If we could create a hole in the fabric, or something that could draw energy from it, the fabric would quickly adapt to that by directing more of the surrounding energy toward the energy hole. Just like the water did. Likewise, if we released a large amount of energy somewhere in the space, like an explosion, that energy concentration would dissipate. And these effects would happen almost instantaneously in a relatively small space.
How do photons move in the fabric?
Light moves in the fabric in the form of a wave. Like a sine wave. And it moves in a polarized way. That is, its waves have an angular orientation. In a sense, a single photon wave moves in only two dimensions, the forward direction of its movement and the plane in which it is polarized. Light maintains a constant speed, but with a varying wave pattern, depending on how much energy it contains. Highly energized photons have greater frequency and shorter wavelength. And the reverse is true for lower energized photons. The wave is a mechanism that allows photons with differing energy levels to travel in the same space in a balanced way, without pushing each other off course. It’s not really part of the nature of an individual photon. It is a manifestation of how the fabric as a whole works. Light also looses a miniscule amount of energy as it travels in our universe. We know this because astronomers have found that light, after traveling great distances, shifts to longer wavelengths -- the red shift. That too, is a result of interaction between photon and fabric. If the average energy level in the fabric was higher than the energy level in an individual photon travelling in the fabric, that photon would gain some energy as it traveled.
Now imagine an isolated two photon interaction -- a simplification that doesn’t occur, as a photon is always in contact with several other photons at once.
Remember, a photon is shaped like a stretched out slinky, with "energy gears" on the inside edge. Photon A is traveling North. Photon B is traveling west. As they make contact, Photon A is about to cross paths with Photon B near its center. The leading edge of Photon A goes through a loop of Photon B and they come into contact. Each photon continues though it own spiraling rotation. The inside edge of the photons rub against each other as each photon spins its way along. Their gears allow the photons to push off each other. A pulls B a little bit southward to keep itself going North. B pushes A a little eastward to keep itself going west. But that doesn’t throw them off course, because the effect of this pushing is equalized by the fabric. They are both connected to the other photons in the fabric. They’re really pushing off the fabric, not just each other. By the time A has spun through the point of interaction so that the interaction point is at about A's middle, B is has moved on and that interaction is over. Each photon continues in its original direction, pushing and pulling its way through other photons in the fabric.
How do massive particles or bodies attach themselves to, and move in the fabric?
Consider this light-only universe again. Except this time we'll place something with a mass – a rubber ball. In a single atom, the electrons jobs are to gather light from the fabric to feed energy to the nucleus of the atom and to itself, and to bond the electron and nucleus together. In an object, the outer electrons have to gather energy for the whole system. They are the connection between a massive body and the fabric. They are constantly drawing energy so the whole system can keep working.
So what happens to the fabric when it has a massive particle in it? Its like a vacuum in the fabric. Gathering some of the fabric's energy. The fabric responds by trying to reach a state of equilibrium. It increases the flow of energy toward the vacuum like a pinch in the fabric. It warps itself to provide energy where it is needed.
Next we have something more massive, a bowling ball. The effect is similar, just bigger. The energy draw from a bowling ball requires a much greater flow of energy because it has more mass. If we could see the photons in the fabric in slow motion, we would see that the photons moving very close to the ball do not follow the same path they would if the ball wasn't there. They are bent toward the ball as they approach it because the fabric is responding to the energy draw created by the ball. And some of the closest photons go into the body, feeding its energy needs. This interaction between a massive object and the fabric is inertia. The fabric reaches a state of equilibrium where it's feeding the energy draw of the object in it and the fabric adjusts its energy flow to maintain that state. But we won't let it stay that way. We're going to apply a force to move the ball.
I don't want to complicate things too much by introducing something else into the space that causes the ball to move. We could do that easily enough by saying, for example, that there were two balls with a compressed spring between them and we release the spring. Just imagine we can push on the ball with an invisible hand that doesn't have any affect on the fabric. So we push on the ball. The fabric resists this change –- like when the cannonball hit the surface of the pool earlier, the inertia of the water slows the ball down. The fabric has to be forced out of the way and it must adjust to the new situation. The energy draw is moving now and the fabric will need to accommodate that. So it adapts by arranging its flow to feed the energy draw. After enough pushing, The ball acquires a certain speed (it has momentum) and we stop pushing. Again, the fabric reaches a state of equilibrium. It is still warped by the energy draw. But now the location of the draw is moving. And so the fabric creates a sort of self-sustaining wave to accommodate the location of the energy draw. As a whole, the grid senses the motion of bodies within it gives them what they demand -- not on purpose of course, it's just the nature of the fabric. The ball keeps moving if no other forces act on it. Like inertia, this momentum is really more in the fabric than it is in the ball.
How does gravity make things fall?
Now we get to the mysterious gravity effect -- which turns out to be not so mysterious. It's just like what happened with the rubber ball and bowling ball, on a bigger scale. Everything with mass, warps the fabric in the vicinity of its own space. This allows massive objects to affect each other at a distance with no direct interaction.
Imagine we have the same bowling ball. We're standing on the earth which is like a giant bowling ball, drawing a lot of energy from the fabric. So much, that the fabric in our vicinity is effectively moving roughly 10 meters per second toward the earth's center. The bowling ball sits on a table. The ball extracts some energy from the fabric, which warps itself to feed ball. The fabric is warped by the ball in a way that allows it to keep feeding its energy draw. From the perspective of the fabric, which is moving down, the ball is moving upward. That is, the downward moving fabric, has to accommodate a ball that is not moving along with it. This creates a downward force on the ball. The energy flow of the fabric space around the ball is acting much like it did when the ball had momentum in the space without gravitation. But not exactly the same. In this case, the natural flow of the fabric is downward and it "wants" the masses in it, to move down too. So the upward wave in the fabric is not self sustaining like momentum. It's more like the table is pushing(accellerating) the ball upward against the fabric.
Let's say the table on which our ball sits is a tall one. We push the ball sideways so it slowly rolls off the table. The table is no longer "accelerating" the ball upward. The fabric has a lot of work to do. The downward flow of the fabric exerts a downward force on the ball. It falls. After one second it is falling at about 10 meters per second. The fabric develops a momentum wave surrounding the ball that will sustain its movement at the ball's present speed. In the next second, the downward flow of the fabric still acts on the ball and pushes it down faster. Now its falling 20 meters per second and the momentum wave grows bigger to accommodate that. This continues and the ball's momentum wave grows bigger in proportion to its speed, until the ball hits the ground and stops.
So the acceleration caused by gravity is a combination of the energy flow in the fabric toward the center of the earth, and the momentum wave that develops in the fabric as the flow force continuously accelerates an object downward. Gravity is not a magical force that requires an imaginary particle. It is only a larger manifestation of the same inertial and kinetic forces that regulate every movement in our everyday lives.
Bound photons
What is an atom?
Our current picture of an atom is very far from the truth. We think the whole mass of an atom is confined to a tiny center and acts from the center with invisible forces. Keeping electrons in place through an electric effect. and keeping electrons from being pulled into the center with the weak nuclear force. In fact, the nucleus is not nearly as small as our current theory suggests. The reason we think it is so small is a result of the techniques we use to determine the size of the nucleus. We shoot at the center of an atom with particles moving close to the speed of light. And relativistic effects cause the nucleus to move out of the way or our "bullets". It's as if we're trying to hit a ping pong ball under water with a hammer. It only breaks the ping pong ball if we our shot is absolutely perfect. If we are off center by even a tiny amount, the light fabric pushes it to the side.
As I described in an earlier post here on Daily Kos last Sunday, the nucleus of an atom is actually a model that creates the shape of an atom's electron surfaces. Which influence the bonding properties of an atom. It also creates the other characteristics of the elements.
Protons and neutrons are simple building blocks that create physical structures in which we can see the properties of the atoms they create. They are built out of what I call Hawkrings, formed in black holes from the previous generation of the universe. As a young universe spends its energy, it squeezes some of the photons from large supernovas into a compact form. These low energized photons bind to themselves, end to end. Forming circles that become the building blocks of matter in the next universal generation.
As do photons, Hawkrings have either a left or right rotational direction that corresponds to the spinning orientation in free photons -- which Hawkrings they used to be. When they emerge into an energetic photon fabric in the next Hawking Rebirth, they will form into protons and neutrons, the only simple, stable structure that is possible. They are bound to each other by photons from the fabric.
Hawkrings also have an input and output direction. If a photon goes into the input of a right spinning Hawkring, it emerges as a right spinning photon. Likewise for a photon that goes through a left spinning Hawkring. As a photon goes through a ring, the energy gears of the photon and the Hawkring engage and the photon acquires the spinning direction of the ring. Changing direction for a photon is like changing the way it’s twisted. Like if you twisted the ends of one of those long thin balloons one direction, then the other.
Two left Hawkrings can’t bind to each other, nor two rights. And opposite types can only bond if the inputs and outputs are facing opposite directions. They bond when a photon goes through one, then while still engaged with that one, goes through an opposite type and connects the two. The photon pulls the two Hawkrings together and stays engaged with both. The photon wraps itself around this binding point and the two rings are bound like links in a chain. The photon link doesn’t just hold the two rings together. It also acts like a chain between the two sprockets on a bicycle. Their spinning force is joined. If one ring were made to speed up, the linking photon and the other ring would also speed up. This interaction, which is effected among all the Hawkrings and photons in an atom, equalizes the energy of the whole atomic system.
In Hawking Rebirth, only two basic, stable formations can occur. First, a circle of 8 alternating Hawkrings. A right joins a left, which joins a right and so on, until there are 8 in a row. The end of the first and last Hawkrings are opposite types and they join – a neutron. Now the whole system is bound and working its gears together, spinning with the same energy level. The other basic formation is a proton. A neutron where a left spinning Hawkring joins the system at the center. Binding to the four right spinning rings in the lager ring. All the rights have their inputs and outputs facing the same direction. Same for the lefts, but they face the opposite direction from the rights.
Other photons engage in this system too. Not where the strongly bound links between Hawkrings are, but in the other exposed gears in the parts of the Hawkring circle that are not bound. Some of these photons pass through the Hawkrings, and as they do, other photons in the fabric engage their "gears". A collection of photons is bound to the system. Photons that go through the left spinning Hawkrings emerge with a left orientation. They are converted. Some of these get attached to a left Hawkring at the input and stay engaged at the input with their bodies extended toward electrons. The photons attached to Hawkrings engage other free photons with their own spin orientation, and those that are bound attract the free photons toward the Hawkring inputs. Eventually, there is a collection of both types of photons attached to, and going through, the inputs of both types of Hawkrings.
An electron is a single right spinning Hawkring that didn’t bind with others. Free photons go through it and get cycled through its gears. Other left spinning photons get engaged to their gears and get pulled toward the input of the Hawkring. An electron is a right spinning photon collector, holding as many photons as its energy can maintain.
The electric force between nuclei and electrons
When a proton and an electron get close to each other, their collected photons engage with each other. The left spinning photons attached to left spinning Hawkrings meet with some of the right spinning photons from the electron. Their tails are spinning in the same direction, relative to each other. Their gears connect and they bind to each other. This is the electric force that binds electrons to the nucleus. There is a core of these electric force-bound photons between a nucleus and each of its engaged electrons.
Surrounding that "core", there are also, left spinning photons bound to the nucleus that exert the weak force, preventing the collapse of the system -- electrons crashing into the nucleus. The tails of the left spinning photons engaged by the nucleus make physical contact with the tails of the right spinning photons engaged by an electron. Their tails are spinning opposite directions where they meet, so they don't grab each other. They push against each other and maintain the atom's electrons at a distance related to the energy level of the whole atomic system. The whole system has equal energy because each photon or Hawkring in the system has its "gears" engaged to at least one other component through which all the gears are tied together.
Note: I made another post on Daily Kos on Sunday night that explains in more detail how protons and neutrons combine to create the elements in the periodic table. That work is incomplete. But my post explains the rules for how elements can form. Anyone interested can find it if they look for the tags: Science, Einstein, Physics. I won't repeat those details here except to say that when elements form, the energy level of the whole elemental system is shared. And the physical shape of the atomic formation is a model for its electron surfaces which account for the properties of the element. Its density, its bonding, conductive and magnetic properties. I have only built(mentally), and described about 20 of the elements so far. But they all reflect the properties of those elements in very obious ways.
Where is the proof?!!!
Obviously what I've proposed here is a radical shift from current physics theory. I don't expect it to be easily accepted, if it all. But for those willing to consider it, I offer the following descriptions of ways to test it, and what I consider some of the holes in current theory that my theory explains.
First, this theory explains a testable, mechanical basis for motion, including gravity, with something that we know exists. It provides a description of light as the mechanism of my long-time hero Einstein's space-time fabric, which has been verified by experiment over almost a century. It also provides design instructions for the mechanics of atomic structure that we can understand and verify. It also explains all the quantum weirdness that I know of. But I have knowledge of only a very small fraction of the body of quantum physics -- the stuff you get from "physics for the layman" books and biographies. Others will be able to think of many ways to test it. But I'll suggest a few ways.
Let's look at some of the obvious things things this theory explains.
If you break apart an atom in an accelerator. Sometimes, a positron emerges. That's easy. One of the positive Hawkrings gets separated from the others and enough positive photons are attached to it so that it can survive for a short while. If you could feed it positive photons, it could survive indefinitely. But we live in a right spinning photon universe the Einstein's fabric doesn't provide those.
My proton/neutron model matches very closely with Gell-Mann's eight fold way and the quark concept that emerged from the results of accelerator experiments. You can see how a proton (five positive Hawkrings and four negatives) could be broken up into groupings of Gell-Mann's quarks. Two positives and a negative; two positives and a negative; two negatives and a positive. That's two ups and one down quark. The charges don't actually come in 2/3 and -1/3 amounts compared to the charge in an electron. But you can see how they would be interpreted that way.
The double slit experiment. I'm not going to explain the details here. There are very good videos on the web for anyone not familiar. The wave interference pattern exhibited is not in the electron or the photon. It's in the fabric. There is no wave particle duality. The particles (electrons and photons) are going through one hole. The fabric carries the momentum wave of the electron, and parts of the wave go through both slits, two sets of waves on the other side of the slits effect the path the particle follows. This interference wave-induced pattern we see reflected in where the electron lands is caused by waves the electron's waves in the fabric. The photon, on the other hand, is pulling itself forward on the fabric. And that causes a different sort of wave in the fabric, which also manifests itself on the other side. It's a very sensitive fabric. Probably some interesting effects could be found with single slit experiments by playing with interjecting different frequencies and polarities of light into the space on the far side of the slit, out of the path of the photon, but close by, and seeing how that affects where the photons land.
In a magnet, the lines of force we see when we put it near iron filings are negative photon streams coming out one end and traveling in the other. The Hawkrings at the center of the neutrons are aligned so these photon chains move from one nucleus to the next. It's like a cooperative energy exchange. The whole body (or most of it) is sharing the energy of the photons in the positive chains. Though, it’s not a very efficient system. In a superconducting environment. This energy sharing works much better. So efficient, that the body doesn't have to draw much energy from the fabric. It loses, or at least lessens it's connection to the fabric, and it isn't pulled much by the earth's gravitational field. And magnets can levitate.
If we could learn the specifics of how different frequencies of light are absorbed by bound matter. We could do all sorts interesting experiments. We might be able to affect how much energy something needs to absorb from the fabric, and change its weight. For example, we make some sort of balance out of the right material(which materials will work best, still needs to be determined -- a copper wire with larger copper spheres on the ends, insulated, exept for the ends, seems like a good candidate) and bombard one end with light at the lowest frequency it can absorb. (The most effective frequency also needs to be determined - probaly something lower than the average energy level of photons in the fabric -- maybe something in near the microwave range.) So the molecules on the bombarded end are getting weaker fuel. The other end would compensate for this by absorbing more energy from the fabric than the untreated end, and would transfer some energy to the treated end. Because the untreated end has to draw more energy from the fabric than its own mass would require, it would be attached more firmly to the fabric. Its inertial wave would grow and it would get pulled down more than the treated end. The gravitational affect on it would increase. The balance would tilt.
Now let's look at something everyone can relate to. An expression of motion forces that we can actually feel and are already familiar with. In sports where we hit a ball with something, we know that follow through is very important. Why does that matter? Because the kinetic energy of the hitting instrument, for example, a bat, is expressed through a momentum wave in the fabric. And the momentum wave affects the thing being hit, the ball.
I'm sure what I'm about to describe could be measured with very high speed photography. At the moment a baseball bat hits a ball, the electric forces inside each make them bounce off each other. At the instant the two separate, the ball has a certain speed. If we could instantly stop the bat, the ball would proceed at roughly that speed. The momentum wave of the bat would quickly turn into an inertial wave and not have much more effect on the ball. But if we follow through, the momentum waves of the bat and the ball stay close to each other. The bat's wave is bigger because the bat has more mass. So as the bat follows the ball closely, the bat wave is affecting the ball wave and the ball continues to accelerate, especially if the bat continues accelerating after contact – growing the wave. You can even feel this effect. As the distance between the bat and ball increases, this effect diminishes.
It wouldn't surprise me if the increase in speed from the moment of separation between ball and bat when someone hits a home run is more than 10 or 20 percent. This effect could be amplified in experiments with more massive hitting instruments and a ball that doesn't bounce too much when it is hit. So the difference in speed between hitter and hit at the moment of separation is relatively small. If the hitter could be accelerated after the moment of separation, so it stays closer to the ball longer, at the same time growing it's momentum wave, the effect could be magnified even more.
Cosmological Speculation
I've never been comfortable with the singularity idea. That the whole universe could be contained in a space with infinitely small size or even just a tiny size. I put that idea in the category with worm holes, travel at or beyond the speed of light, parallel universes and people putting their hands through walls or actually seeing the future. I don't think there is any magic in the universe.
Let's fast forward into the future, way beyond when the human race (and all the other intelligent races in the universe) has either extinguished itself(or themselves) prematurely, or the earth(or their planets) can't sustain life anymore. To a time when all the galaxies have spent their fuel and there is nothing burning. It's a big, cold, lifeless place. Now we have the problem of how can gravity pull it all back together. I don't think it has to. I think the energy level of the light fabric might get so low that bound matter can't gather enough energy from the grid to stay bound. Atoms would either fall apart, or their remaining energy would dissipate into the lower energy fabric. Either way, the energy of bound matter would turn back into free photons.
Incidentally, we are bathed in light energy from our sun. The average energy level of the fabric around a sun is much higher that it is in deep space, away from stars or galaxies. If we could get outside the increased energy level from our sun, The energy level of our atoms would decrease too. Similarly to Einstein's space dilation effect at relativistic speeds.
The exception to this conversion from bound light to free light is black holes. They are the factories that make all the Hawkrings. At the center of large supernovas, there is a lack of energy to feed on, and enough pressure that photons shrink and they’re forced into the most compact form they can accommodate – left and right turning Hawkrings. They want more energy but they can’t collect enough photons, and don’t have enough space to turn into atoms. They remain in their black holes until the next rebirth occurs.
While the cold matter releases its energy back into light, the gravity the cold matter was exerting diminishes. There isn't as much massive material to be drawn back to the center -- just the black holes. They are all drawn together toward the center of the universe, and they meet and join. I don’t think the rebirth begins right away. The energy density in the fabric is so low, that there aren’t enough high energy photons to form atoms. And I don’t see any force that makes an explosion.
I think the fabric reaches a point of low energy where it stops expanding. Perhaps the gravity draw from the black hole at the center draws it back in.
I don’t think the fabric collapses totally either. If it did, the center couldn't explode very fast because the massive particles wouldn't have anything to make a momentum wave in. Maybe for a while a giant black hole sits in the center and is drawing light in at a tremendous rate. The light fabric is drawn toward the center by it. As the energy in the fabric gathers near the center and the fabric space decreases, the energy gets more concentrated. At some point the fabric gets energetic enough that atoms can start to form at the edges of the giant black hole in the beginning of Hawking Rebirth. Maybe their is even a "bounce" from the fabric contracting and the rebirth occurring. As the new atoms begin to form, they need room to spread out, and they push the fabric outward again. As more and more atoms are created, this bounce effect increases and the fabric carries the expansion of the new matter. That could explain why astronomers observe that the galaxies in the universe seem to be accelerating away from each other. This is something that I don't think current theory explains very well.
I don't know much about black holes beyond what I learned from Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time". I'd like to find out what he would think of all this.
Finally, if anyone considers and tests my theory, or someone else with credentials comes up with it and it becomes accepted. I think we could treat disease with light. For example, as I described in the balance experiment above. If we can alter(speed up or slow down) atomic function by bombarding materials with the right frequencies of light, we might be able to kill cancer cells by slowing down the atomic function of tumor cells with implanted light emitters -- starving the cells and decreasing their ability to multiply or even to survive. With a similar technique, but with higher energy light) we might be able to increase the atomic function of damaged nerve cells and cause them to grow faster. Some amazing effects are already being discovered by using light in many fields. If what I have proposed is true, and it eventually becomes fully understood, We would have a much better understanding of how to improve the effects and uses of light-focused techniques that we've already discovered. As well as find new ones.
That's it. Thanks to anyone who made it this far.
I received quite a bit of commentary on my Sunday post. Most of it snarky. Some of that hilarious. And some very thoughtful. I welcome any thoughts anyone has to offer -- snarky or not. Bring it on.
Thanks to the Kos community for providing a forum where a person can expose their ideas to others so easily.
Sneelock - aka garage relativist