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“History has a habit of defining where we are today.”
A significant outcome of the two historical concepts of magnetic and electric fields, was the model of the photon, left to us by Maxwell. He based his model upon a dynamic interaction of electric and magnetic fields.
However, the electric field, which is traditionally viewed as the primary ‘driving’ field force, relies for its existence upon the presence of an ‘electric charge’. Any justification of Maxwell’s model of the photon, requires the photon to incorporate an ‘electric charge’ that is capable of alternating in a sinusoidal manner between its two possible states of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ energy.
This would create the ‘driving’ side of the electromagnetic photon, but for the awkward fact that photons have never been observed to carry an ‘electric charge’. But then, neither have they been observed to have a ‘magnetic dipole moment’.
To begin this shift from the perception of the photon as an electromagnetic entity, a first step is to reflect upon how these two ingrained concepts of ‘positive and negative’ energy and ‘north and south poles’ came to be the foundation stones of physics theory.
The concept of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ charges is generally attributed to Benjamin Franklin in the 18
th
century, who, in his early experiments with electricity, used these terms to explain the movement of electricity into and out of a high voltage capacitor, called a Leyden jar.
His terminology of incoming positive charge and outgoing negative charge, subsequently became the founding concept of ‘electrostatic theory’ and was applied to the fundamental particles of the atom and later their anti-matter equivalents.
The rules, that electrostatic theory conformed to, were that no particle can have more than one charge assigned to it and the magnitude of the assigned charge, whether positive or negative, does not vary with the size of the particle.
This changed, however, with the more recent discovery of the Quark particles and a departure from these rules has been made, which allows charge to be split into positive and negative fractions between the differing types of quark. And there we stand.
Electrostatic theory rests upon the ability of an electric charge, whether whole or fractional, to generate ‘perpetual energy’, a requirement that breaks the first law of thermodynamics. Its validity also rests upon the concept of an electric field being constructed from field lines that have a unidirectional reach, extending to ‘infinity’. This property of ‘infinite reach’, like gravitational theory, means that the concept of an electrostatic field, does not conform to the principle of ‘quantum mechanics’.
If we reach even further back in history, we find the other ingrained concept of physics, that we call magnetism. The formation of the earth with its part solid and part liquid core, created a spherical magnetic field around itself, which led to the concept of magnetic fields having ‘north’ and ‘south’ poles. This allocation of opposite poles to magnet fields led to the concept that particles with a magnetic field have a ‘magnetic dipole moment’ and this is still employed in current atomic theory.
Development work in the field of particle physics, gained us the knowledge that all particles, whether charged or neutral, have a magnetic property and this led us to the understanding that a magnet is a ‘composite field’, generated from the ‘collective magnetic fields’ of each and every particle within the magnet.
A mechanism that demonstrates this collective field theory, is to create a new magnet by externally applying a magnetic field along the required axis of a magnetically susceptible material. In the same way that two bar magnets brought together will combine their separate fields into one, so the individual magnetic fields of each particle within the magnetically susceptible material, become integrated with the externally applied magnetic field.
The withdrawal of the external magnetic field, is the same process as separating two co-joined bar magnets and this leads to the retention by the magnetically susceptible material of its individual magnetic field lines and the creation of a new magnet.
The field lines of the new magnet circulate around and through the magnet on a route that always includes the originating particle. De-magnetise the material and the circulating magnetic field lines all revert back to their originating particle without energy loss.
Magnetic field lines are not lines that appear from one side of a particle and disappear into the opposite side, but are ‘complete circles’ and as such, the generating particle does not have a ‘dipole moment’, but has a circling magnetic field ring located around itself.
Without the reality of the ‘north and south’ poles, the magnetic element of the photon is physically unable to alternate between its two possible states by exiting a ‘north pole’ and entering a ‘south pole’ in the sinusoidal manner, which would allow it to follow on from an alternating ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ electric field.
Free of its ‘electromagnetic’ identity, the photon should pass through a high voltage electric field or an intense magnetic field without any obvious deviation from its pathway. And it does.
So, if the photon has neither an electric nor a magnetic component, then what exactly is it? The answer is pretty straight forward. If the photon has velocity but no mass, then it must be comprised of pure, unadorned ‘kinetic energy’.
The replacement of the concept of electromagnetism by the quantum concept of ‘rotational kinetic energy’, does not alter the experimental results of physics in any way, but it does offer a simpler terminology to explain the quantum mechanics of physics that provide these results.
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