First, it is important that we fully admit to ourselves the reality of
reference frames (you'll see why I hammer this in the next couple paragraphs
if you read on). The same laws of physics are obeyed by the same objects
when viewed from any reference frame. These laws are obeyed in a reference
frame whether there is an observer in that reference frame or not. So to say
the concept of "reference frame" is only an abstract tool, is wrong. A
reference frame is real whether there is someone in it or not. Saying
otherwise is saying the laws of physics are obeyed only in reference frames
that contain an observer.
The concept of a frame moving at the speed of light is already accepted in
physics circles. It is used in the description of an object falling through
the event horizon of a black hole where the escape velocity, and thus the
velocity of an object dropped into the black hole, is light speed. To
overcome the infinities present there we say such an object "tunnels"
through the event horizon--a quantum mechanic thing. Besides, Occam's Razor
says we should first presume, as well as is possible with our current
comprehension, that a reference frame moving at c is not different than any
other.
So in a reference frame moving at c there is no distance between the point
of departure and point of arrival.
Now consider the double-slit experiment.
In various reference frames moving at light speed, all the particles of the
light source, barrier with slits, and photodetector can appear at the same
position and can, therefore, interact with no time delay in that point of
view. The particles can exchange information without regard to the order the
interactions take place. In other words, in this point of view there is no
such thing as a one-way interaction, as we presume happens in the
double-slit experiment when we believe light leaves the light source and
strikes the film.
Depending on the direction we travel, we can find a high-speed point of view
in which any two particles in the universe are occupying the same place, and
are thus able to interact without regard to causality.
Therefore there is a mechanism in which all particles in the universe can
undergo a simple interaction without regard to causality. A simple
interaction, here, means an interaction that involves a transfer of energy
from one oscillator to another. By oscillator, we mean a set of repeating
interactions such as the interactions occurring between a particle and the
other particles within an atom.
Therefore our presumption that each particle of the entire double-slit
experiment was unaware of all other particles until they were encompassed by
the light cone from the emitter, is incorrect. There was actually a
conspiracy of all the particles to fool us into thinking there was a
paradox--namely a paradox of cause and effect.
What we presumed was a "photon" that first left the source, traveled through
the slit(s), and then finally arrived at the film, was really an interaction
of the orbits of the electrons in all molecules (specifically, all
oscillators) in all possible reference frames. Remember, the laws of physics
must be obeyed in all reference frames, right?
Said another way, there is no such thing as light. You may ask, then, how
matter is converted light, or you may ask where is the energy we attribute
to travelling photons (it can't just not exist!). Good questions. The answer
to both is this: The location of energy is subject to one's frame of
reference. So for one observer to say the photons are 'now in transit' will
disagree with the observation of another observer who will say that the
energy has not yet left, or has already arrived. What is 'in transit' is
Lorentz variant.
The actual mechanism of communication among the atoms in this transformed
realm has to do with the phase and orientation of the oscillators in each
atom. Light has wave-like properties because the phase in BOTH a reference
frame moving from the source to the destination and a reference frame moving
from the destination to the source must be right for energy to be
transferred. A simple analysis of these phase requirements in reference
frames moving at c shows that in our realm such transfers follow the rules
of wave propagation!
The Pauli exclusion principle is what gives light its particle-like
attributes. Simply put, even in this transformed realm, no two oscillators
may have the same state. So energy appears to transfer in packets. When two
oscillators attempt to attain the same state (phase and orientation) in any
given reference frame, the Pauli exclusion principle forces them to
different states, and this is seen as a transfer of energy (called a photon)
in our space-time.
After warming up to this, one may begin to see that it is Lorentz
contraction that is more a 'consequence' of the way particles interact,
rather than the behavior of particle interaction being a consequence of
Lorentz contraction.
Kelly Loum
polygnotus at yahoo dot com
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