Each of the following attributes of the photon can change without directly affecting the other attributes:
- Size - this is how the photon carries energy
- Spin - this is how the photon transmits the magnetic field
- Deformation - this is how the photon transmits the electric field
Note that spin has both orientation and speed of rotation. This corresponds to the direction and strength of magnetic fields.
Deformation must necessarily have two sub-categories too, since electric fields have both orientation and strength, just like magnetic fields.
How exactly the deformation works is something I'm still struggling with. It may be a phase shift of charged quanta, or some other displacement. It's hard to say. Whatever it is, it must be able to communicate both direction and strength.
However, speed through space is definitely not a freedom of operation since speed cannot be changed for a photon.
Dielectric displacement is not possible either. Dielectric displacement would make photons behave differently with respect to gravity, something they do not do.
Unless someone can come up with another freedom of operation for the photon, the three freedoms mentioned above are the full list of things that a photon can do.
Photons can only carry energy, transmit the magnetic field and transmit the electric field, nothing more.
As explained in an earlier post, deformation and spin are not completely independent. When spin changes, the deformation changes its characteristics. A change in spin cannot happen without a change in the orientation of deformation. Hence, the close relationship between the magnetic and electric field.
The electromagnetic field is not a single field, it is the sum of the electric and magnetic field, and should more properly be called the electric and magnetic field.
Since Morton Spears' gravity is communicated as an electric field, photons make up the communicating medium for gravity. This means that photons affected by gravity are in fact interfering with themselves.
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