Photons
I read that electrons are “bumps in spacetime”
What is spacetime? There is infinity on a head of a pin!
Infinity goes inward as well as outward. There are infinite infinities.
(everyone is everyone, another deep thought)
Anyway,
I was thinking about photons as particles, and wondering how one photon, which is visible to the human eye, can be seen from any angle. The source would have to shoot out photons in every direction, in order to be seen. But-
If photons are both waves and a particle, then each quanta of light/electromagnetic energy must be an expanding orb, like a growing bubble, that “pops”… when it has found the shortest path.
V. Rao Potluri, Reed magazine:
“When light travels through two different media, the velocity changes,” Potluri explains. “It bends and chooses a different path, and that angle of refraction is governed by the fastest way for the light to travel. So, light is smart; it always chooses the fastest way to reach from here to there. When you think about things like that you might think, ‘God is a mathematician.’”
The bubble would disappear the entire circumference, leaving the “particle” at the popping point. Does this explain entanglement? The bubble pops over vast distances, instantaneously, even if the bubbles are large! (radius in all directions from the source)
I don’t really know much physics, but this idea “popped” into my head, today.
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