Tag Archives: Photon
Particles that wave or waves that particle?
What the Michelson Morley experiment really shows, and what most modern theories fail to recognise, is that empty space is incapable of supporting a wave. The fact that there is no ether means that all that is left which can support a wave is material and material, be it matter or antimatter is made of […]
How is it possible to make nothing out of something?
There is a fundamental conflict between the currently accepted interpretation of Maxwell’s equations and the absence of an ether like medium. Maxwell’s equations purport to show that a changing magnetic field induces an electric field and a changing electric field induces a magnetic field. Taken together these two coupled fields oscillate and the whole propagates […]
Einstein and Bohr and the nature of reality
Perhaps the most important scientific debate of the 20th Century was that which took place between Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein during the 1930’s and 40’s. At issue was the very nature of reality. By that time Bohr had become convinced that the laws of physics had to be different on the scale of the […]
Shedding some light on the nature of the photon
Visible light is just a small part of a much of a much broader spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, ranging from radio waves at one end through microwaves, visible light and X Rays to gamma rays at the other end of the spectrum. All of these different and seemingly diverse types of radiation are the various […]
Can electric charge exist in the absence of a charged particle?
Up until the 1820’s the only magnets that were known were lodestones and magnets made of iron such as compass needles. Then in 1820 Hans Christian Oersted was conducting a demonstration of the heating of a wire by means of an electric current. Coincidentally he also planned a demonstration of the effects of magnetism for […]
The Bandwidth of the Photon ?
James Clerk Maxwell was the first person to connect light with other forms of electromagnetic radiation and in so doing he showed that the bandwidth of electromagnetic radiation extends beyond that of just light. Since then the spectrum has been broadened to include radio waves, microwaves, infra-red, visible light, ultra violet radiation, X-rays and gamma […]
