When we think about the speed of light, we make some very serious assumptions. What if some of these assumptions have to be revised? At one time, people thought that the earth was the center of the universe and the planets and sun revolved around the earth. We have since found that this paradigm of the earth being at the center of the universe was quite wrong.
We now know that earth revolves around the sun and the sun is part of the much larger Milky Way Galaxy, a huge collection of stars, and our Milky Way Galaxy is part of a much larger collection of galaxies. Arthur Koestler's book 'The Sleepwalkers' catalogs this epic journey.
What is remarkable is that the revolution in thought about the earth and planets ever took place at all. Copernicus's book of 1543 'De Revolutionibus' that was closer to an understanding earth's relationship to the stars and the planets was possibly not widely distributed nor read. In modern physics we are on a threshold of another revolution and perhaps don't even know it. This revolution has to do with the nature of light.
The question I raise is whether scientists are still sleepwalking. After you read my blog fully, and assuming that you understand much of what I am saying whether it is right or wrong, I would be interested in your view.
My Idea that The Speed of Light is Zero
At the very least, light is a puzzle.
Light seems to move extraordinarily fast, but why? What is causing light to move? Light movement seems to me to be a strange anomaly. Light is classified by scientists to belong within a group of particles referred to as force carrying particles. But, where is this force actually coming from?
In fact, Einstein's equation for energy e=mc squared seems to make the fact very obvious that light is possibly the fastest stuff around. But, having considered it for some time I have to ask the question, "Is it?" My point is that, it could be very difficult to distinguish empirically whether light is moving or everything else is moving.
My ideas concerning the nature of light arise because of my artistical 'interest' in light. As an artist, I am not confined to the results of scientific method and when I see the results of such method produce non-sensical conclusions, I have to ask whether they are an illusion. The real question, I ask is whether our advance in the physical sciences is based on a grand illusion and whether by removing that illusion some answers to physical anomalies might be unvieled. I begin with the concept of a three dimensional space. This we can see, feel, touch and use. We find that within the three dimensions are entities that scientists call fermions. The fermions are grouped into two groups called leptons and quarks. Outside the world of fermions, which are entities that repel each other, and do not bunch, but there is another world that of the bunching bosons. The thing to remember is that bosons do not obey the Pauli exclusion principle. Light is made up of photons and photons are a kind of boson an entity that tends to bunch.
Now if you, made up of fermions consider that you are still, then light is moving. However, if you consider that you are expanding at the rate of 186,000 miles per second, then it could be that light is standing still. My question is how do you tell for sure. Also how do you explain the other properties of light, and gravity, which are the force carrying entities.
If light is standing still, surrounds, and is interlaced with everything else, then when we observe light we will get a difference between light in point A and point B suggesting that light has moved from point A to point B.
The problem with this is that there are some anomalies about the movement of light particles or photons, which are part of a class of particles referred to as bozons or force carrying particles. We also see light as waves. But, why?
We have been told by scientists that the speed of light as 186,000 miles per second. Wow! That is very fast.
In my humble view donning my artist hat temporarily and without a great deal of knowledge about physics I feel I need to beg to differ that light is that fast at all! No! Light is not moving.
In my view, the speed of light may be conceptually, zero, or 186,000 miles per second slower than our own movement, which is what we may be measuring. Ever wonder why there is so much energy in the particles that make us up. What if that energy is kinetic? If we were to slow an exploding particle down, would we not release energy because of differences in relative speeds? What would happen?
Instead of light, it may be fermions, or we, who are moving at the speed of 186,000 miles per second. Or should I say, we are exploding at that speed. In addition, it would seem that the rate at which we are exploding is not fixed, but indeed may be accelerating.
"Absurd" you exclaim! "How can it be! You are an idiot! Quit making these outlandish comments that are clearly a load of non-sense! Who do you think you are that you can get away with such obvious fantasy?"
How do I arrive at my conclusion that light has no speed, but we do?
I am not saying that the idea of light being stationary has sex appeal. I am not even saying it to be controversial, which is, of course, what it is. I am making the statement because it is what I presently believe. Now, if you can give me another thing to believe about the speed of light, I will not ignore what you say, unless there are too many of you, in which case I will pay attention to some of you.
No! Please hear me out on this one!
My view of light as being static emerges for a search for the artist to draw the fourth dimension along the lines of Hinton's original ideas. Basically, it is easy to draw a point, line, rectangle and cube, which are representative of our fermionic world. For the fourth dimension the normal method is to continue using the fermionic tools and assumptions.
Where I depart from this is to take the next step and assume that the fourth dimension is not fermionic, but bosonic in nature. This means that the cube is populated inwards rather than outwards to creat the visual image of the fourth dimension. In other words, the cube is bunchy or groupy rather than exclusionary and independent. It means that the fourth dimension and additional dimensions that we will want to represent occur within rather than outside the cube.
This leads to another concept of what we as humans actually see as a reflection or evidence of the fourth dimension. What we see is light? The second aspect of this visual imagery or imagination is that that the light does not move, but is everywhere purvasive within the fermionic dimensions. The third aspect of the imagery is that because the cube is turned inward in terms of the three fermionic dimensions there is an enormous repelling force created by the non-bunching fermions as they scramble to avoid bunching together.
This enormous repellant force pushes the three fermionic dimensions outward in at an amazing and excellerating velocity. One has to ask why the fermionic dimensions are pushed inwards rather than outwards. They are in effect held by another dimension that acts to hold them together. This other dimension has enormous force. Where then is this other dimension. Obviously, it surrounds all of the fermionic entities like a balloon. The only thing is that we don't see them because they is very very small in relative terms, as small as the particles making up the fermionic dimensions.
What Are My Twelve Artistic Dimensions?
The big all may have at least 12 artistic dimensions, and came to me when I was playing around with higher geometries. It works somewhat as follows:
Dimensions 1-3:
There are the three regular dimensions, but remember that time does not exist, but only spacetime and that your brain is not a memory device that works at the molecular level, but a device that works at a much lower level.Its like realizing that the atom has tremendous amounts of energy that cannot be explained by the 'non-nuclear' physics. The atom is made up of three kinds of particles; electrons, and protons made that comprise up quarks and down quarks. Other kinds of particles can be made, such as composite fermions etc, but while electrons and quarks may have long lives, most other fermions are temporary entities. The proton itself is made up of up quarks and down quarks.
The force that gets these particles active is the froce that ensures the light dimension and that light remains still. Fermions move and it seems like a stream that they are bathed in light and that it is the light that is moving when in my view as an artist it is physical matter that is moving and for very good reasons.
Anyways, I have concocted a world in which there are 12 dimensions of artistic space that physicists may not recognize in the way that I do, possibly and no one else but me can see as mental images. I don't think I am being absurd. Do you?
Dimension 4:
In the very beginning our three dimensional space spawned a force called light or photons, which is my fourth dimension. The geometry of this is fascinating because one needs to have light permeate the universe in its very peculiar way and my theory of still light explains this.
Dimension 5:
The photons combine because of properties of higher dimensionality/geometry to create energy through their mass and motion, called e=mc power 2 (from Einstein's theory of relativity) energy equals mass times the speed of light squared, and energy is the fifth dimension. It results from fermionic entities pushing away from each other.
Dimension 6:
The energy accelerates and creates gravity and weight, as we experience it, and warps spacetime, which is our sixth dimension, gravity is directly proportional to mass. The world is inside out. Very interest this!
Dimension 7:
As energy accelerates and spacetime warps, it causes all the particles to spin and to assume a particular direction (left handed or right handed), which creates our 7th dimension of spin.
Dimension 8:
The spin in turn produces a vortex that is the basis of the patterns all natural or material objects, our eighth dimension, the mathematical theory of chaos applies, i.e. the butterfly effects. Nothing exists, but chaos, so there are no linearities of existence. All is curves, just as my Ing people thought. That is why the leaves have the shape they have and stones are just stones.
Dimension 9:
The patterns of matter in turn form networks that are made from a spinning lower dimension, which creates our nineth dimension of patterns, which can explain the clustering of galaxies and their distribution within spacetime, as well as why we are part of spacetime in the region we are.
Dimension 10:
The networks are translated into forms (matter and crystals), and life forms (animal, vegetable, etc), which creates our tenth dimension, which is where we appear as humans, as a life form created not from clay, but from light, and why our brains are light forms not clay forms, and explains why when we die, we go into the light, and why ghosts always come to us as forms of light.
Dimension 11:
The material forms of all sizes and life forms develop into evolutions which create our eleventh dimension, we have evolved from earlier light forms, and all living things depend on or result from light.
Dimension 12:
There is next with the evolution of all things material from light and force or power, the source of everything, the production of meaning, which is the 12th dimension of my framework.