3Blue1Brown has a very good explanation of how light works as a wave
And the barber pole effect shows how matter (sugar) rotates light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCX62YJCmGk
There is also evidence that "photons" are just thresholds in the material that is used to detect light. The atoms vibrate with the EM-wave and at a certain threshold they switch to a higher vibration state that can release an electron.
If the starting state is random, the release of an electron will often coincide with the light that is transmitted from just one atom.
This threshold means that one "photon" can cause zero or multiple detections. This was tested by Eric Reiter in many experiments and he saw that this variation indeed happens. Especially when the experiment is tuned to reveal this. By using high frequency light for example. It happens also in experiments done by others, but they disregarded the zero or multiple detections as noise. I think the double detection effect was discovered when he worked in the laboratory with ultraviolet light.
What a timely article and comment. I've been watching a lecture series over the last few days about quantum mechanics and the many worlds interpretation. And I have questions.
I may have missed it or didn't understand it when I heard it explained. What underpins the notion that when a particle transitions from a superposed to defined state, the other basis states continue to exist? If they have to continue to exist, then okay many worlds, but why do we think (or know?) they must continue to exist?
I disagree. Our notion of waves is no less an analogy to macroscopic phenomena than billiard balls. There’s no avoiding the dual nature, and there’s no problem with saying that the wave analogy works in some places, but the particle analogy works in others. The only real truth here is “neither.” A photon is a photon, and there is no macroscopic analogy it reduces to perfectly.
> To quantify this influence, the team applied their model to Terbium Gallium Garnet (TGG), a crystal widely used to measure the Faraday effect. They found that the magnetic field of light accounts for about 17% of the observed rotation at visible wavelengths and up to 70% in the infrared range.
Nearly 20% seems already significant, but 70%?! that's massive.
This isnt exactly new. This is a obvious and predicted effect of ECE Theor. I'm surprised that neither the article nor any other commentor mentioned it yet.
tl;dr on ECE Theory: Gravity is a curvature of spacetime, electromagnetism is a torsion.
I’m sorry if I offended anyone’s consciousness by bringing this up, but this can affect how we view the health effects of radio frequency electromagnetic fields.
Since the magnetic fields of these EMF’s can pass deeper into the body than the electric field, that would mean that the magnetic field can affect many of the voltage gated ion channels in the body. That’s including the brain.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 45.3 ms ] threadBut actually everything is merely waves and fields.
There's going to be a time where humans finally reconcile the quantum with the newtonian -- and I can't wait for that day
There is also evidence that "photons" are just thresholds in the material that is used to detect light. The atoms vibrate with the EM-wave and at a certain threshold they switch to a higher vibration state that can release an electron. If the starting state is random, the release of an electron will often coincide with the light that is transmitted from just one atom.
This threshold means that one "photon" can cause zero or multiple detections. This was tested by Eric Reiter in many experiments and he saw that this variation indeed happens. Especially when the experiment is tuned to reveal this. By using high frequency light for example. It happens also in experiments done by others, but they disregarded the zero or multiple detections as noise. I think the double detection effect was discovered when he worked in the laboratory with ultraviolet light.
Here is a paper about Eric Reiter's work: https://progress-in-physics.com/2014/PP-37-06.PDF And here is his book. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BlY5IeTNdu1X6pRA5dnJvRq3ip6...
I may have missed it or didn't understand it when I heard it explained. What underpins the notion that when a particle transitions from a superposed to defined state, the other basis states continue to exist? If they have to continue to exist, then okay many worlds, but why do we think (or know?) they must continue to exist?
Nearly 20% seems already significant, but 70%?! that's massive.
> However, the new research demonstrates that the magnetic field of light, long thought irrelevant,
tl;dr on ECE Theory: Gravity is a curvature of spacetime, electromagnetism is a torsion.
Since the magnetic fields of these EMF’s can pass deeper into the body than the electric field, that would mean that the magnetic field can affect many of the voltage gated ion channels in the body. That’s including the brain.