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The pic shows a screenshot of https://polyphys.com/ckframe.php
I wrote the app as a simple demonstration that a helical photon samples circulations of the EM 4-potential in a way that make the EM tensor redundant.
Briefly, the 4-potential offsets the "torsion" of the helix expressed in a local frame where one axis follows the tangent of the helix and the other points toward the instantaneous bend in the path.
It's a crude construction, insofar as the 4-potential is that of an artificially presumed "static" source charge, but this artificial stand in would need to be replaced by a 2nd light helix.
>does that mean the 4-potential is actually oscillating according to the source's helical motion?
>is there some argument for this oscillation to "blur out" over large distances?
>...or, is that oscillation imparting some structure to the interaction accounts for fundamental constants?
More questions than answers at this point, but it's been a fun rabbithole so far.
Any feedback or recommendations on the site are always appreciated. Honestly I cannot guarantee that anything will look reasonable on mobile
>inb4 "it looks like shit on my 3 foot monitor"
I don't work on it much these days, except to do a one off thing like this just to test something that's been on my mind.
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>>16921084
>a fun rabbithole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYyrgDEJLOA
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Why does this surprise you?
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>>16922381
Nice to learn about. I know "everything is light" is not a new idea, but nobody takes it seriously so there's still lots of low hanging fruit apparently. I also came across zitterbewegung theories which at first seemed in the same spirit but appear to have taken a wrong turn somewhere along the way.
I've treated the fundamental photon cycle as being a loop but it could be taken to be a torus (per your video). This would give us a winding number that might be associated with charge, so its an appealing route. For sure spin does not appear in my construction, but perhaps this is just because the fundamental cycle is a cycle, which is just a cycle around a torus with 0 winding... so perhaps a toroidal path would exhibit the same repulsion behavior, but I haven't gotten to it yet.
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Well, you could go the other way with it: 2 photons annihilate to produce 2 charges, therefore everything is made of charge. There are many equivalent pictures. The important conceptual point is to replace the blind labels of the standard model with some underlying functionality, e.g. worldline topology of some universal particle. I call that particle a "photon" arbitrarily.
What got me thinking about it was the thought of a "loop of light" and the realization that it's cycle rate would time dilate when the loop is boosted (assuming fixed radius anyway). Didn't really know what to do with that realization until recently.