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gubbenimanen
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Can elongated photons explain gravity, the double slit experiment and black-body radiation?
Background and facts:
My old school book "Electromagnetic Fields and Waves" by Paul Lorrain and Dale Corson shows some interesting figures on the E and M-fields around a point charge moving at high velocity. For example figure 6-10 shows how the E-field lines gather perpendicular to the direction of motion. See my attached figure that shows the same thing. For velocity ß = 0 the E-field has uniform intensity at all angles. Velocity ß = 98% of light speed in vacuum the E-field peeks 5 times higher at 90 degrees (compared to ß = 0) and near zero intensity at 0 and 180 degrees. You can run the applet at http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~phys1/java/phys1/MovingCharge/MovingCharge.html to see how the E-field looks for a linear moving point charge at high speed. Also figure 6-15 in the book shows how the equipotential surfaces of scalar potential V get elongated perpendicular to the direction of motion.
To be continued in the next post...
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gubbenimanen
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Possible implications:
It thus seems to me that a photon moving at c would be very elongated because a photon is an electromagnetic field traveling at light speed!
Young's Double Slit Experiment
If a photon is elongated it could pass both slits, diffract at the slit edges and interfere with its own diffraction pattern. Same with a high speed electron. If we try to measure the photon or the electron the field is disturbed, washing out the interference pattern. The photon is guided forward along a pocket in the moving interference field. See Wikipedia for the Pilot-wave theory.
Gravity theory
If photons are very elongated they could create a field far away. Perhaps photons are the dark energy in the universe? Perhaps they can explain dyons, magnetic monopoles (again see Wikipedia). Perhaps they can explain the strange gravity experiments made by ESA and Fran De Aquino? Perhaps they can explain how black hole can evaporate?
I want to mention the Feynman-Wheeler "shadow" gravity theory. Where gravity is explained by a uniform radiation pressure. If something is in the shadow by another body the radiation is lower on the shadow side resulting in a attraction force between the bodies. However as Feynman mentioned in his book, a body in motion would feel a resistance to motion due to this radiation. Perhaps this shadow theory can explain MOND, the Casimir effect? Perhaps stars creates this radiation pressure? The gravitation "constant" is lower near Mercury and higher at the Pioneer sond? But there are problems with this theory. What are these photons or particles? They must be able to go through Earth. We still feel gravity inside caves - and it's dark - no light. Microwave cosmic background radiation, neutrinos or the elusive gravitons?
Black-body radiation
What if an ellipsoid shaped photon can explain black-body radiation? If receiving the photon straight ahead there is a high delta V potential. See point b in the attached figure. If receiving the photon at a great angle from the travel direction there is a long wavelength, gentle slope (low delta V potential). This is point c in the figure. Point a shows a low-intensity short wavelength.
Comments welcomed!
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Roger
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Mike K
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I think I'm going to have to learn some more math if I'm to do anything but take your word for it on this one! But, it sounds good.
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HiggsBoson
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General Relativity provide a model and a physical mechanism for gravity. Therefore we have two competing theories. GR also predicts how photons will behave in the presence of gravity. Does your postulate do this?
GR also provides a mechanism that may be responsible for dark energy so you should consider this as well.
In GR the elongation of photos is explained as a result of the expansion of space-time. This is called cosmological red-shift not to be confused with Doppler shifts. This is why the Cosmic Microwave Background appears to be on the order of 3 degrees K rather than 3000K.
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gubbenimanen
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I agree that GR is a valid and successful mathematical model. But I also note that on great distances it needs the cosmological constant to account for dark energy, at small distances GR breaks down and is replaced by quantum physics.
My postulate that photons are elongated is based on Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism and Einstein's relativity theory. See the book and the link I referred to above. What I find very exciting and revolutionary is that I have not seen anyone before drawing a conclusion that a photon should get elongated as a result of these equations, that this can explain the double slit experiment!
Perhaps photon elongation also explains "spooky action at distance", photon entanglement? As if you rotate one bar magnet it affects another bar magnet at distance by the magnetic field.
I would like to propose a physical experiment with a laser and photon detector. Tell your physical lab  The detector should point to the laser, parallel with the laser light. A wall shall hide the detector from seeing the laser diode directly. If photons are elongated, the detector would detect the sideways stretch of the photons (after where the wall ends). The detector should look for any wavelength from radio to gamma rays.
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llanitedave
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The wall would have to be very non-reflective.
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