Or, "Why there are no fucking photons."
Many of you reading this are probably unfamiliar with the term "light
cone", so in order to clarify for all of you the points that I made
earlier, I'm going to introduce an alternate form of the Cartesian
coordinate system to illustrate what Special Relativity has been saying
all along, but nobody wanted to hear.
In this new coordinate system we are going to plot the magnitude of the
electromagnetic field at various points within 3d space in the usual
manner, i.e. wrt the x, y and z axes. However, when we plot the points
in this new system, we are going to plot them "as they will be" in the
future. The rules that we'll use for this are simple: Measure the radial
distance r of the field point from the origin of the axes (we'll assume
an electron in motion as the source) and then calculate what the field
strength will be at that point at a time r/c later than when the
electron passed through the origin. Very simply what you'll get,
according to the Minkowski metric, is a perfect inverse square field
plotted in this version of coordinate space. The reason for this is
that according to Special Relativity the field propagates at a speed of
c from the source. Since it is arbitrary which point we take as origin,
then it follows that no matter the speed of the electron or or its
position wrt us, the 4d space-time field that we've plotted will remain
completely unaltered in form regardless of changes in motion of the
electron, i.e. the electron is a perfectly rigid 4d space-time field
(And according to the electromagnetic properties that I've derived it
also has a hyperbolic/elliptical metrical structure. Click on the link
below for more details about this aspect)
Now take into account that another electron located some distance from
the first reacts directly to the local field gradient, and that the
source of the local field gradient is other charged particles, then a
change in position of these electrons wrt each other, though involving a
delay in the old 3d Galilean system, incurs no such delay in our 4d
coordinate system. Thus whether there are em waves or not depends upon
which relativistic system we adopt as a basis for observations. Since
the Galilean system was ousted by the introduction of Special
Relativity, then we must accept the 4d interpretation as the correct
one, or IOW, there are no em waves (so much for the aetherist's mantra)
but more importantly, there are no fucking photons.
Richard Perry
http://www.cswnet.com/~rper/Electromagnetism.html
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