Low Energy Photons Everywhere

This blog post contains some early thoughts that led me to my current theory about the aether.

To explain gravitational red-shift in terms of dielectric photons, I had to introduce the idea that all of space is filled with low energy photons. There are no real voids, instead there are low energy photons everywhere.

But what exactly do I mean by this, and how do these photons propagate in order to get everywhere?

First of all, since low energy photons are photons, they move at the speed of light. However, since they have little energy, they will bounce and change direction at even the smallest resistance. Since they are everywhere, they bounce into each other all the time. They behave very much like atoms in a gas.

Like a gas, they propagate to fill all cavities. They bounce around until they find an empty spot to fill. The only spots they cannot fill are those already occupied by other photons, atomic nuclei or electrons.

However, they can occupy the space in between the nucleus of an atom and its electrons. They bounce around and find their way through matter. There's no way of shielding off a region from these photons. They are truly everywhere, and therefore always available when a transfer of energy is required.

When an atom contracts its electron orbits, it transfers energy to nearby photons. No photon is created in this process. All that happens is that low energy photons are given energy boosts.

Conversely, when an atom absorbs energy by widening its electron orbits, this is done by the absorption of energy from high energy photons. The photons themselves are not absorbed, merely kicked down in their energy levels.

Energy transfers cannot happen faster than the speed of light, so when a large number of atoms are forced to change the orbits of their charged quanta, there will be a noticeable delay. This is what we experience as inertia. When energy is transferred from the acting body to the inert body, the inert body does not absorb energy instantaneously. It takes time. The more inert matter there is, the more time and more energy is required to change its speed.

The fact that space is filled with low energy photons means that a high energy photons is likely to hit into low energy photons as it whizzes through space. There will be scatter and a statistical uncertainty about the exact position and energy of the photon as it progresses through space. A portion of the original photon's energy will be lost to low energy photons.

This means that high energy light will have a natural tendency to shift towards the red end of the spectrum as it moves through space.

In addition to red-shift due to differences in speeds of inert objects, we have gravitational red-shift, Halton Arp's intrinsic red-shift, and a red-shift that is purely a function of distance. Far away objects are not red-shifted because they are moving away from us. They are red-shifted because they are far away.

Aether of low energy photons and neutrinos