Photon Space
A photon has no size (it has wavelength but that doesn’t dictate size), it is a discrete, massless unit of energy.
Every measurement we make about something comprises the transfer of a discrete ‘bit’ of energy, such as a photon wave function collapse.
When we look at the stars we see bright points and dark spaces, this lead to “Olbers’ paradox, which said more or less: if the universe is infinite, why the sky is not always bright, due to the infinite numbers of stars contained in it? The more common answer is that the universe is finite.”
There is another paradox, however, when we see a light point, we are registering a photon locally, at our eye, the implied direction of the point of light comes, presumably, from registering more photons with a particular ‘direction’. Perhaps this direction can only be implied statistically from multiple photons. How?
“this is diferent from Oblers paradox, because anywhere in space, you WILL in fact see light, and therefore photons are occupying that space”.
In other words, can you tell the origin of a light source from a single photon? Is it possible that space itself is made of photons, or more accurately that the limit of ‘unravelled space’ is photon like and that mass is a different or curled up spacial geometry? All this leads to the (actually quite commonplace notion) of event timelines as being the geometry of space itself. (I could imagine this looking like some kind of Fractal Tree, i.e. there is no continuous background space with constant axes).
Related: Can you tell how far a photon has travelled:
“Since photons can start at any frequency (also for the value of other properties), there is no way to tell how far a photon has travelled just from its detection. By looking back along its path until you see something you may be able to find its origin.”
‘By looking back along its path until you see something you may be able to find its origin’ - circular argument.
Related: Why is water in a glass transparent? “Since the photon that comes out of glass is going in the exact same direction as the photon that went in, something very interesting is happening inside the glass. The photon reaches the glass and is immediately absorbed by an electron. Sometime later, the electron emits a new photon. The new photon is travelling in exactly the same direction as the old photon. The new photon is absorbed by the next electron, which later emits another photon, again travelling in the exact same direction. This process repeats billions of times until the final photon is ejected on the other side of the glass, still in the exact same direction, and goes on its way.”
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July 18th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
stumbled here, student of all sciences master of geology, maybe, love physics, have own intuitions but do not understand the “cosmic landscape’ nor quantum thermodynamics and the attendant math.
I have always thought the the photon is the basis of the universe, kinda metaphorically God’s Seeds, Feelers, creators, that
I have so many questions, new to the site so I will search.
do photos have a emf around them? is that a goofy idea, do the other sub A particles, electron, bosons and all dat schtuff?
how far due electro-magnetic fields extend, like earths, the suns, the, milky ways,
what is the shape of the milky ways emf, does it interact with the emf of other galaxies, what is the shape of the interaction, and how does it move in reaction, has anyone done any topology of this hypothetical surface? obviously special things happen along the ever changing seams or intersections,
how far does the electro magnet field of a human, tree, dog, desk, interact with all the same?
how do emfs affect photons, electrons, and their movements through them, and vice versa,
does it make sense that the universe is an intricate web of interacting emfs with points of photon entry (suns) and photon exits or vacuums (black holes) then it is critical to under stand there interaction and how photons move through and on and on,
peace
July 31st, 2009 at 5:20 am
An understanding about human brains program that allows it to imprint the bright aspect of light(photons)is a great leap foward towards understanding the nature of light.
Isaac,environmental scientist.
January 20th, 2011 at 6:54 pm
The photon is born and dies in the same instant. Its world is without time and space. The photon connects (sender and recipient) the very instant connection is made (in our world). Is it just like a touch in the timeless, spaceless photonworld? The photon is everywhere - all around us - engulfing us, our universe. And yet its world, its universe is one of no time an no space. This photonworld of no time and space engulfes our world, we are inside it - which means our world does not exist either…
Seen form the photon - our world i just a black empty void (as the photon dies the instant it is born)? Cannot be that because void implies space, something the photon does not know.
Dies in the same instant it is born? That implies that the photon does not really exist. This being the case means that we do not exist.
See this world from the photon view.
Include the timeless and spaceless dimension of the photon with our 4 (space+time) to understand physics.
There is no such thing as photon space. Photon space does not exist.
In our world the photon is a frequency - a vibration (in what?). In the photon world it is NOT like a touch because that implies time. In the photon world the photon is like a static stick (between sender and recipient) - but it is not even that because photons do not exist. Photons are feeling/s frozen/set in notime and nospace - in no thing.
“To feel it I have to restrict it” - this realisation and principle is the root cause of our world - animal mundi.