The Structure of the Photon

In my blog post on Ampère's right-hand grip rule I ended up with a problem that I failed to explain satisfactorily. I had to come up with a complicated structure for the quantum, and even then it failed.

Later, when I explained how electricity is induced into copper wires when they are moved through a perpendicular magnetic field, I avoided the problem I had encountered by simply not mentioning it.

The problem was that if magnetic fields are made up of photons spinning like rollers on their axis, then electrons and positive ions will in fact be forced in the same direction when moved through a magnetic field, and this is not how things work in the real world.

The way to envision this problem is to imagine a series of rollers laid out as a conveyor belt, all spinning the same way, and all parallel to each other.

Drop any object onto the rollers, and they will be transported in the direction of spin. It does not matter if the object dropped onto the rollers are hoopy or hooky. They go the same way.

However, in the world of electromechanics, hoopy electrons move one way, and hooky ions move the other way.

Clearly, something is not quite right with the model. Photons cannot act as simple rollers. When they spin, they must do so in some other way.

Luckily for us, the photon is complex enough to allow for an alternative way to spin. Photons contain six quanta, three positive and three negative. This is enough to allow for the construction of a structure in which photons consist of two orbs, one spinning in one direction and the other spinning in the opposite direction.

If a positive and a negative quantum are put together to form a central point, the four remaining quanta can be arranged such that we get one orb consisting of two negative quanta and another orb consisting of two positive quanta.

Two orb photon made up of six particle quanta

If these two orbs always spin in opposite direction and with equal speed, we can imagine the above mentioned conveyor belt as one in which the photons are such arranged that the hoopy orbs all spin in one direction while the hooky orbs all spin the other direction.

Drop a hoopy object onto this conveyor belt, and the spiky orbs send it moving in one direction. Drop a spiky object onto the same conveyor belt, and the hoopy orbs send it moving in the opposite direction. This is exactly how things work in the real world of electromagnetics.

Induction of current into a wire

It appears then that we have managed to salvage our overall model of the subatomic by making the photon a structure made up of two orbs, one positively charged and the other negatively charged, each spinning at the same speed as the other, but in opposite direction.