Although there is a great deal of evidence proving photons are particles, there is equally valid, strong evidence that photons have wave properties. The particle-wave duality of photons and electrons has sparked much debate for more than 300 years; however, elastic string theory easily explains particle-wave duality. Let’s begin this discussion with diffraction.
The observation that photons bend around solid objects is called diffraction. It was first observed by Grimaldi, an Italian scientist, in 1665.
According to elastic string theory, the photon’s magnetic fields are composed of magnons that are ejected at right angles to the photon’s line of flight, and the electric fields are composed of electons that are also ejected at right angles to the photon’s line of flight. It is also true that magnons and electons are ejected at right angles to each other.
The elastic strings have physical properties; i.e. they have mass.
Imagine a photon traveling past a thin wall as shown in the following illustration.
If electons are the strings striking the wall, the orientation of magnons will be up or down, which means they will have no bearing on the deflection of the photon. The opposite is true if magnons strike the wall. However, since the total mass is the same for each, the photon will be deflected the same either way.
Scientists have frequently studied the deflection of photons using slit experiments. In this case, the photons are directed through a thin slit and deflection is observed as the photons pass the wall. This is shown in the following picture, which was taken from Wikipedia.
In this single slit experiment, those photons whose strings strike the barrier on the left are diverted left, while those photons whose strings strike the right side of the slit are deflected to the right. This reasoning explains all slit experiments that show photons and electrons have wave properties. When the width of the slit is extended, only photons passing near the barrier are deflected.
A radio wave photon is bent more than a photon of visible light when it passes by an obstruction because a photon of visible light has 100 billion times more momentum than a radio wave photon. However, both will be deflected to some degree. This observation provides another convincing line of evidence that photons in flight have mass, just as their strings must have mass.
It is true that all elastic strings tend to be swept to the rear as they pass through a field of gravitons crisscrossing in all directions. In most cases the concentration of the graviton field is uniform, which allows a photon to travel a straight path. It must be that a solid wall deflects a photon faster than the matrix of gravitons otherwise the photon would not curve as shown.
Diffraction experiments clearly support elastic string theory.
In the next blog, we will take up another mechanism for changing the flight path of a photon that involves its wave properties. Till then be safe and in good health. Kelland—www.vestheory.com
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