Light: Key to the Mechanism of Physics . . . Don Jarvis

Light

Questions about the rationality of explanations of physical phenomena are met with the claim that physics is counterintuitive. The justification for retaining counterintuitive explanations is that they agree with observations and they support predictions.

An example of counterintuitivity, explaining the curvature of the path of light in a gravitational field by defining gravity as distortion of space in the presence of matter.

It is possible to explain this phenomenon without resort to counterintuitivity. Gravity is the mutually attractive force between each particle in the universe. To behave gravitationally is to demonstrate substantiality. Space is intuitively insubstantial, thus cannot respond to gravity or exhibit shape.

Light responds to gravity, thus, as a hypothesis, light is substantial or particulate. This removes the need for another counterintuitivity, that light is both a wave and a particle. A wave cannot traverse a vacuum.

The wavelike behavior of light requires a binary particle. A simple unary particle could not oscillate, could not exhibit frequency or period.

The straight line path in the absence of gravity indicates the components are equal in mass. The oscillation indicates dissimilarity in charge.

In this hypothesis the particles are the electron and the positron, equal in size, dissimilar in charge. These particles constitute an element of radiation, a binary photon (bion). They travel in mutual orbit around a moving axial center (counter quasicycloids), drawn together by their charges, tending to separate centrifugally. Their plane of rotation contains the vector of the moving center point.

Substantial binary composition provides a rational explanation for all observed properties of light.

Path is deflected by a gravitational field but not an electric field, producing gravitational lensing.

Plane of rotation is torqued by an electric field but not a gravitational field, exemplified in the Kerr cell.

Particulate composition explains the photoelectric effect.

Binary particularity explains the random result of particle collisions.

Binary particularity explains single and double slit phenomena. The particles may be paired with different partners after a slit interaction, or the interaction may result in a new emission.

Substantial composition of light suggests a hypothesis for dark matter and residual radiation. Space is filled with randomly directed bions.

The mutual orbit suggests a hypothesis for spectral shifts and the predominance of red over blue. Generation of bions is random. Some orbits will expand, some contract, and some will be stable. The expanding orbits shift to red and eventually the particles separate. The contracting orbits shift to blue and eventually the particles unite as neutrinos. Gravity augments attraction and reduces repulsion, thus observations show more bions in red shift than blue.

Action at a Distance

The assumption that action at a distance represents instantaneous transmission of information over an interval of space is a misrepresentation of the way that gravity and electromagnetism work.

The attractive force of gravity and the attractive/repulsive forces of electromagnetism operate as springs. The forces are perpetually existent between every particle in the universe, regardless of distance.

The force exerted by any particle is continuous but may be considered as an infinite series of contiguous concentric spherical shells of arbitrary thickness representing the arbitrarily infinitessimal segments of incremental force. The particle and all its shells are an infinite sphere of force diminishing in strength with distance from the particle. If a particle is at rest, so is its sphere of force.

A change in the position of the particle initiates a disturbance of the force which spreads outward over time from the innermost shell to infinity. Vector analysis of this disturbance explains the various rules for determining the direction of "force fields" associated with moving particles.

Subjects to come

[Why there is no magnetic monopole, the mag field is an artifact of the moving particles, the e field is a property of the particles]

[Relative speeds of the particles vary during cycle as they move with or against the light vector, thus the mag field is much less than the e field]

[How the bion operates in the generative cycle of stars and galaxies]

[Constancy of the measured speed of light regardless of the speed of the measurer]

[Generation of bions]

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